Welcome to the SAGE edge site for Essential Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition.

The SAGE edge site for Essential Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition by Gregory J. Privitera offers a robust online environment you can access anytime, anywhere, and features an impressive array of free tools and resources to keep you on the cutting edge of your learning experience.

Essential Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences is a concise version of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences by award-winning teacher, author, and advisor Gregory J. Privitera. The Second Edition provides balanced coverage for today’s students, connecting the relevance of core concepts to daily life with new introductory vignettes for every chapter, while speaking to the reader as researcher when covering statistical theory, computation, and application. Robust pedagogy allows students to continually check their comprehension and hone their skills while working through carefully developed problems and exercises that include current research and seamless integration of IBM® SPSS® Statistics. Readers will welcome Privitera’s thoughtful instruction, conversational voice, and application of statistics to real-world problems.

Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge Gregory J. Privitera for writing an excellent text and developing the materials on this site. We also thank Quentin King-Shepard of the University of Pittsburgh, Qingwen Dong of University of the Pacific, and April Taylor of California State University, Northridge for developing the materials on this site.