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"This book is essentially a non-mathematical exposition of the theory of statistics written for experimental scientists. It is an expanded version of lecture notes used for a one-year course in statistics taught at Oregon State College since 1949. My intention in this book is to stress a few basic principles of statistical inference and prepare the student to study a special branch of statistics, such as the design of experiments, the sampling survey, and quality control. I have not attempted a comprehensive treatment of the subject. The descriptive statistics is only briefly presented in Chapter 2. Students in the experimental sciences are accustomed to acquiring knowledge through experiments, that is, through induction. It is fitting, therefore, that these students should acquire an understanding of statistics by experimental, or inductive, means rather than by mathematical, or deductive, means. Examples are used to illustrate the possible applications of the principles presented. The book is roughly divided into three parts by the two review chapters, 13 and 20. The first part is devoted to the basic concept of statistical inference and to the introduction of the four distributions. The second part is devoted essentially to the analysis of variance, and the third part to the non-parametric methods. These topics are joined, however, by repeated references to the analysis of variance. The importance of the individual degree of freedom is stressed"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).

"This book is a social psychology in the Galilean tradition. Our contention is that the conditions under which human behavior occurs are primarily meanings, for the most part common meanings. In this sense we may think of this book as a logic of symbolic interaction. Some twenty years ago signs of a new trend began to appear, and it is our belief that this book is a product of that trend. The new trend showed increasing emphasis on social interaction, on analysis of dynamic processes, as against the more static attributes or entities. The new trend seemed to portend a movement toward synthesis and the emergence of an integrated system for social psychology, a system competent to describe and analyze in the same vocabularies the phenomena of both individual and group in terms of intrapersonal and interpersonal behavior. This book is presented as a beginning in that direction; it is an attempt to synthesize in a systematic heuristic form some of the more advanced contemporary thinking about human behavior in the fields of social psychology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, psychiatry, and semantics. The book purports to be an integrated conceptual formulation for social psychology in a form which synthesizes the situational or field approach with the symbolic interactionist approach. The viewpoint is therefore field-centric rather than organocentric or envirocentric. It is a descriptive analysis of how man perceives, makes judgments and choices, thinks, and otherwise behaves and comes to behave, as a social being; it is a study of 'the person in the body'." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)