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Strategic Business Planning: Securing a Future for the Nonprofit Organization
Miriam P. Kluger , William A. Baker , and Howard S. Garval
Manufacturer: CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)
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A proven performer designed for today’s psychology students, Fundamentals of Behavioral Statistics combines current thinking with a clear presentation designed to foster complete student understanding. A classic text that features a modern, student-oriented approach to studying behavioral statistics with an emphasis on accessibility and comprehensiveness, it is built on four tenants of success: a strong mathematical foundation, clear and interesting examples, rich illustrations and abundant exercises. The revision will continue to place great emphasis on introducing students to exploratory data analytic techniques by replacing outdated techniques with the latest, most up to date methods. Real life examples, used to present the most current approaches to teaching statistics, will be revised to incorporate results from popular and familiar experiments.

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Great to reach an understanding.......2007-09-23

Great for those trying to get the basic understanding of behavioral statistics. The wording is very plain and easy to understand, yet they also don't ramble. The index works well, and the appendices are highly useful.

Statistics.......2007-09-16

I am using this book for an online graduate statistics course, so there is little direction from a formal instructor. All of my information so far is from this book. It is easy to read and the examples are easy to follow. I would recommend this book to anyone who is beginning the journey into statistics...very helpful

Really good.......2003-12-01

A unique introductory book in statistics. The hallmark of this book is nodoubt the clarity of detailed explanations of fundamental statistical concepts. A lot of invaluable material and explanantions here not to be found in other textbooks on statistics!
Highlights that spring to my mind are the excellent treatments of averages, correlation and regression, and hypothesis testing. A very important topic (usually missing in most textbooks) is the strength of evidence in hypothesis and significiance testing and is treated very nicely in various parts of the books. This book should not be missed by beginners (and probably experts) in the field.

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Basic Statistics for Behavioral Science
Gary W. Heiman
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences Student Workbook + Study Guide

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Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences Student Workbook + Study Guide
Gary Heiman
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Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (3rd Edition)

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Painless Statistics

Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (3rd Edition)
Kenneth D. Hopkins , Bruce R. Hopkins , and Gene V. Glass
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Painless Statistics.......2000-01-16

For those of you who wish to have a basic understanding of statistics, I recommend Basic Statistics by Hopkins, Hopkins, & Glass. This textbook will take the most novice statistician from the mean, mode, and median into two-factor anova with a sense of humor. It contains several understanding checks and answers in each chapter, enabling the reader to stop and review difficult information. Each chapter also contains active reviews, mastery tests, and answers for concept. These authors have made this text easy to read and easy to understand, which is a difficult task for such difficult mathematical information.

Basic Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences

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Basic Statistics for the Social and Behavioral Sciences
George M. Diekhoff
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Psychological Testing: Design, Analysis, and Use

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Basic Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
Robert M. Kaplan
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Basic Statistics for Behavioral Science Research (2nd Edition)

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Excellent textbook for behavioral science statistics.

Basic Statistics for Behavioral Science Research (2nd Edition)
Mary B. Harris
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There are numerous professionals who are interested in doing research but who may not have had much statistical training as part of their formal education. This book addresses the needs of the "mathematically challenged" in ways no other statistics book does. Most statistics books are written for people who teach statistics, not those who want to learn to use statistics in order to read, understand, and conduct research. KEY TOPICS: Written for those with little mathematical background, this book focuses on teaching students how to select and conduct appropriate statistical tests to answer research questions. This book does not assume a lot of prior knowledge, nor does it assume readers will know what kind of tests to perform. Written in with an engaging tone, this book is for anyone - from teachers to nurses, from social workers to managers - who needs to know the basics of researching and analyzing data.

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Excellent textbook for behavioral science statistics........1999-11-09

This book presents statistics in a very non-threatening manner. It clearly provides both the how and the why of statistics for the behavioral sciences. The author has included "tips" throughout each unit that highlight important concepts that help focus the student's understanding of the topic. Each new procedure is followed by a well conceived example.

Basic statistical concepts in education and the behavioral sciences

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Basic statistical concepts in education and the behavioral sciences
Albert E Bartz
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School book
Pleasurable reading, and easy learning

Basic Statistics for Behavioral Science
Gary W. Heiman , and Heiman
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ASIN: 039596251X

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Each statistical procedure in this text is presented in a conceptual, intuitive manner to illustrate how it fills a need in the process. Students anxious about math will benefit from a scaled back emphasis on the discipline, plain language, and a step-by-step approach that reintroduces, reviews, and reinforces procedures. In addition, references to psychology have been reduced to make the text more inclusive of all behavioral sciences.

The text has been revised to streamline the narrative without reducing content, make presentations more concise, and add more explanatory techniques. Nearly all examples include specific variables and questions rather than generic data, and most are taken from everyday life so that students gain an intuitive feel for the meaning of scores and develop an ability to think in statistical terms.

Summary tables and charts help students organize and remember related topics.
An opening section in each chapter, Why Is It Important to Know About...?, introduces the major topic, immediately placing it in a research context.
Key terms are bold within the text, reviewed in the chapter summary, and listed in a new section at the end of the text.
Reference tables provide guidelines for selecting from the descriptive and inferential procedures discussed in the text based on the type of data or research design employed.

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School book.......2007-08-18

It works for the class but somewhat outdated..he's got a new one out that's better.

Pleasurable reading, and easy learning.......2004-07-31

I took psychology at Monash University in Australia when I was 15 years old, and thankfully Heiman's book was the set text for research methods and statistics in the first year. Although the word "basic" is in the title, it is not a book without depth. It is an easy to read survey of undergraduate level statistics used in psychology courses. By the time you've finished with this book, you will be able to comfortably read and critique the vast majority of research papers in psychology, including some meta analyses.

This book will be especially useful if you've never studied statistics or you believe you are no good at any kind of mathematical study. I already had a strong background in mathematics when I took courses using this textbook, but I still found this text enlightening and pleasurable reading.

Heiman uses everyday language and clearly explains not only the funny squiggles and symbols, but also exactly when and how to use different types of statistics, how to conduct and evaluate research and how to interpret the meaning of research results in the behavioural sciences.

Heiman changed my mind about statistics with this book. Before I took statistics I could only think, "lies, damn lies, and statistics." I thought they were useless, misleading, and tools of propaganda. After finishing this book, I found that good statistics were useful and reliable aids to understanding an astonishing range of data.

While this book is accessible to the average student, and even to those who's achievements in mathematics/statistics are modest or non-existant, it will not insult the intelligence of more experienced students, either.

If you've ever wondered about the Chi Square test, ANOVA, "no significant difference from a chance variation," z-scores, r, N=whatever, then you will love this book. You will also be able to play "spot the useless or misleading statistics" and make truly informed decisions about social science research.

Basic Statistics for Behavioral Science Textbook + Study Guide

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Basic Statistics for Behavioral Science Textbook + Study Guide
Gary W. Heiman
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Quality Management for Government: A Guide to Federal, State, and Local Implementation. (book reviews): An article from: Government Finance Review

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Quality Management for Government: A Guide to Federal, State, and Local Implementation. (book reviews): An article from: Government Finance Review
George C. Gaskins
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This digital document is an article from Government Finance Review, published by Government Finance Officers Association on February 1, 1995. The length of the article is 539 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Quality Management for Government: A Guide to Federal, State, and Local Implementation. (book reviews)
Author: George C. Gaskins
Publication: Government Finance Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 1995
Publisher: Government Finance Officers Association
Volume: v11 Issue: n1 Page: p51(1)

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Scholars have only recently begun to appreciate the extent to which the norms and practices that foster market societies have been shifting and conflict-ridden. The thirteen essays collected in this volume embrace the view that the experiences and feelings engendered by the historical development of market societies have been, and still remain, open to a broad range of interpretations. They also share the characteristic accents of a new approach to cultural history, in which careful examination of actions, texts, and artifacts is accompanied by an open-mindedness about what their examination reveals.

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Royalty Free - ReadySetPresent (Inspirational Quotes): Keep your audience focused and engaged by using our carefully selected collection of thoughtful, witty and humorous quotes. Use in a presentation with an LCD projector, make handouts, and create overheads. This topic includes 25 quotes, slide transitions, clipart and animation. It is a must-have supplement for anyone interested in presenting on these or related topics. Packaged on 3.5" floppy disk/s. PC compatible. You may use this product over and over again.

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Several forces are transforming the structure and content of the marketing profession. Marketers are seeing increasingly faster changes in the marketplace and are barraged with an ever increasing amount of information. While many view traditional marketing as art and some view it as science, the new marketing increasingly looks like engineering. This textbook, combined with a comprehensive collection of 26 leading-edge software models provides the student with the know-how and tools to collect the right information and perform analysis to make better marketing plans, better product designs, and better decisions.

Our purpose in writing this book is to help educate and train a new generation of marketing managers. We aim to train marketing engineers to translate concepts into context-specific operational decisions and actions using analytical, quantitative, and computer modeling techniques. We link theory to practice and practice to theory.

"I am very excited about this book. Finally marketing can exhibit its scientific muscle and move from opinions-based decision making to data-based decision making. I think this is a very important book that will spawn a new discipline within marketing."
Philip Kotler, Northwestern University

This package includes a CD containing Marketing Engineering Classic v2.4 software and a one-year license for the use of 26 software programs, help files, and tutorials. Requires Microsoft Windows OS and Microsoft Excel. Note: This software is not compatible with Excel 2007. For more information on software, visit www.mktgeng.com for the educational market and www.decisionpro.biz for professional applications.

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helpful text.......2006-11-15

The content and tutorials of this text are useful. They will familiarize the reader with the types of tools and methods that are used to support marketing decisions.

In many cases the inputs of the analysis exercises are given and too subjective to duplicate the results with alternate data. However, the processes help organize your thoughts.

I'd recommend this book to anyone looking to develop a general understanding of marketing analytics.

I also found the software a bit buggy but usable none the less.

Poorly written.......2001-06-13

I bought this book for an advanced marketing class in my MBA program. The authors explain in detail the elementary topics which are covered in basic marketing class. For e.g. they talk in detail about segmentation, but they fail to explain thoroughly clustering and factor analysis.The tutorial also lacks depth and does not interpret the numbers.

Software Bugs.......2001-04-15

The book is o.k., but the software is full of bugs.

Content Listing.......2000-10-21

I want to know content listing from this book

Tutorial to Accompany Marketing Engineering: Computer-Assisted Marketing Analysis and Planning

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Tutorial to Accompany Marketing Engineering: Computer-Assisted Marketing Analysis and Planning
Gary & Rangaswamy, Arvind Lilien
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Tutorial to Accompany Marketing Engineering: Computer-Assisted Marketing Analysis and Planning
Lilien Gary & Rangaswamy Arvind
Manufacturer: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
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Excellent book with with tons of insightful knowledge.......2001-10-27

This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in creating websites with great business value. As a server-side applications developer, I've been mainly concerned with exploiting the web as a technological medium. This book opened my eyes to the web as an information medium, strategically used to improve a company's bottom line. It truly delivers on its claim -- [serving as] "a bridge from technical understanding to business savvy".

The book is extremely well-organized and has tons of practical knowledge and insight. Furthermore, all the principles are illustrated using easy to follow, real life examples. Excellent throughout -- highly recommended!

Build Websites Anchored in Business Reality.......2001-10-20

Building effective business systems and web applications requires an understanding of not only technology, but also the organization and the processes in which it will be implemented.

Nick Flor, a Professor of Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon's Graduate School of Industrial Administration, argues that to create high-value business web sites requires business as well as technical knowledge. He draws a distinction between a mere web site, which he says, exchanges information and a business web site, which exchanges value - it generates significant revenues and/or drastically pares expenses.

He says three skills are required is proposed for systematically molding the Web to the specific requirements of the specific business.

1. General Business Knowledge.
2. An ability to analyze and diagnose business activities.
3. An ability to design Web treatments to address those activities.

To equip Web entrepreneurs and consultants with these requisite skills, Flor organizes his book into four sections:

1. Web Business 101 - This section covers the first business skill - the big picture. This general business primer includes a discussion of Return on Investment, Net Present Value, Payback, Internal Rate of Return, production, distribution and the effects of competition.
2. Web Business Engineering - Using the knowledge acquired in the first section, the book proposes a methodology that links technical knowledge with business specific knowledge.
3. Case Studies Putting Offline Activities Online
4. Case Studies Applying Web Business Engineering to Online Activities

Stick with the book until you reach the case studies. They add value to the first two sections.

This well-written book sheds important light on web development. By focusing on the author's definition of "value", managers and development teams will avoid aping successful online companies, building instead, systems that address what companies should be doing online based on their offline activities.

The way it should be done!.......2001-09-17

Until reading this book I thought I had a good understanding of what it took to design the underlying strategy and processes supporting commercial web sites. After reading this book I clearly saw how wrong I was.

The approach set forth in this incredible book is straightforward and focused solely on business imperatives. I suspect that the author and publisher realized that the title would attract IT professionals and consultants, which accounts for the inclusion of business 101. I almost skipped over this part and am glad I didn't. Even here what I thought I knew about business turned out to be superficial. The education you will receive in Business 101 goes well beyond the basics and I recommend that everyone read this regardless of whether you are an IT professional or have a business background. You might just discover that you've been misapplying common techniques such as NPV, IRR and ROI, or using the results in erroneous ways. In other words, the section titled "Business 101" is much, much more.

I loved the author's approach to value chain analysis, which is straightforward and based on a simple, but effective, notational language. Here, like in every other chapter, I learned techniques that will serve me well in general consulting assignments outside of web business engineering.

The web business engineering methodology itself is one of the leanest, most effective processes that I've ever encountered. I can only describe it as elegant. It's a blueprint for success when success is measured by how well a system is aligned to business strategy and goals. If you follow the method and resist the temptation to take shortcuts you will be rewarded with a system that meets all of your requirements and objectives whatever they may be - and you'll know exactly what the value of that system is to your organization.

A few observations about this book: (1) Give yourself plenty of time to read through this book and work through each example. It took me four times as long as it would for a book of approximate page count and topic complexity. If you're unwilling to make this commitment, perhaps you should pass this book up. (2) I fully agree with the author and a previous reviewer that web systems projects should be managed by business instead of IT. (3) If you're an IT professional get this book and read it from cover to cover - even if you never work on a web project you'll receive an incredible education in business factors and requirements analysis that will serve you well on *any* project. As a fellow IT professional I will assure you that this book will change your outlook.

This book is among the best I've read on any topic or subject and should be required reading for anyone who is assigned to a web project. It's also, in my opinion, one of the most important books published in the past few years.

Refreshing, Business-focused and Candid.......2001-09-14

The author provides a business-oriented (and technology-free) approach to engineering an on-line presence that is effective and should set the standard for a methodology for how to go about such projects. This is embodied in a framework that is defined by four principles (1) work is a combination of physical and informational activities, (2) informational work is accomplished by propagating content, (3) valuable and innovative content can be found in existing manual methods, and (4) an on-line strategy should be based on off-line advantages. These principles are simple, yet powerful. They are also not as easy to adhere to as they seem, which becomes apparent when you begin mapping activities in subsequent chapters.

There are so many things I like about this book, so I'll stick with the highlights. First, the differences between the way IT/IS and business units approach projects are carefully examined. Understanding these differences will make or break a web project, and as an IT professional I fully agree with the author that IT is the wrong organizational unit to lead and manage web projects. Their role should be relegated to that of support.

Second, the author leads you through the basics of value chain analysis, business factors and financial analysis. This is an excellent refresher for business professionals and is essential reading for IT professionals, especially those who claim to be business analysts. I learned a great deal from the discussion on ROI, NPV and IRR. These are not new knowledge areas for me, but learning about the fallacies and pitfalls inherent in each approach that can trap you or lead you to bad decisions was priceless.

What I learned the most from was the Quick Primer on Diagnosing Problems and Opportunities. As in the rest of the book the author uses case studies to reinforce the concepts and principles. In this case you are led through a mailing cost analysis and some of the results are surprising. For example, after all of the cost drivers are mapped out on a spreadsheet you play with some variables and discover that commonsense properties of the model do not necessarily act in commonsense ways. Doubling productivity (assuming it is possible to coax such a thing from humans) only yielded a 2.5% reduction in costs. Using cheaper labor actually cost more in the particular model. As an aside, the model was not contrived to create these counter-intuitive results - it is a plain vanilla cost model that you would commonly encounter or build. In this chapter you are introduced to a step-by-step process that shows how to effectively perform a cost analysis and find the true drivers that can be changed to reduce or avoid costs.

A caveat about this book: it can be easily read, but is merely interesting unless you take the time to carefully step through each case. If, however, you take your time and work through the problems and trace the value chains--a tedious task--you will find that this book has many chapters that are profound. That's a strong word, but in my opinion an accurate one. I've applied the approach in this book on a real-life project and can attest that it works extraordinarily well - and that's the highest compliment one can pay to an author.

Web business success by applying business basics.......2000-12-10

In the arguments about taxation of Internet sales, I am firm in believing that they should be taxed. For some time, I have thought that the only protection that net companies needed was from themselves. Launched without a great deal of forethought, market research or even a viable plan, many of them are now crashing. Business on the Internet is no different that any other business, and since that is the foremost point of this book, it is indeed one that could have made a significant difference if it had been published and read two years ago.
The author, a Professor of Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon, was one of the first professors at a top-ranked school to teach the business uses of the Web. The approach in this book is all business, with Return On Investment (ROI), Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) equations being used to make the points. There is not one word of hype in this entire book. If there is one thing that has been so clearly lacking in the explosion of dot-com companies, it has been this lack of management by equation. Guerrilla marketing and fancy ads will get you noticed, but only a positive balance sheet will keep you alive long enough for it to matter.
The remainder of the book covers the modeling of a business constructed on the web using two that he has created, www.datingexpert.com and www.yesnomaybe.com. Both deal with online dating/meeting services and the models of need, perceived value and potential revenue points are "classic" studies in how to plan and execute a business model based on user-generated information. One of the most valuable pointers which shows how much the author truly manages the sites are the data points about how people find the site. For example, on page 177 there is the caption, "Only 1.3 percent of my Web sites' traffic is due to users guessing the site's address." I did find myself wishing that he had shared more information as to how this data was acquired.
While the business models used on the Web are different in degree from those offline, they are not different in kind. The basic rules of business still apply and as the author repeats so many times, it is what you do offline that matters. Lose sight of the business equations and the points where you add value and your company will be another dot.com Titanic.

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Managing in the New Economy is a comprehensive book which minutely examines the need for the application of Human Resource Management (HRM) principles and practices to the emerging knowledge economy in India.

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Endorsements.......2004-01-30

Dave Ulrich
Professor, University of Michigan, School of Business
Author, Why the Bottom Line Isn't

"Mohan Thite's Managing People in the New Economy uniquely combines theory and practice on knowledge management and human resource management. The book will help those committed to learning learn how to embed knowledge through HR systems and it will help those committed to HR to recognize and deliver knowledge as the outcome of their work. As the new economy becomes an accepted reality, insights from this book will form the foundation for managerial norms and expectations".

Bruce Highfield
Director - HR,
Virgin Blue
Australia

"Finally a HR text book which speaks frankly about our profession's good intentions over the last decade. A refreshing update for every Senior HR Practitioner. If you want to keep your HR team honest read this".

Prof. Kalyani Gandhi,
Professor - HRM & OB
Indian Institute of Management
Bangalore, India

"This is the first text book I have read in ages from page to page. I like the book for the following reasons:

1. It is user-friendly - the flow is simple, clear and easily understandable with the right mix of theory and practice.
2. I particularly liked the layout of chapters; especially the culmination of the chapters in, "agenda for managerial action", followed by the case scenario. I thought it was unique.
3. Well referenced but not too cluttered with references.
4. Though it deals with knowledge management it provides as a good, comprehensive text book for all students in management. It has a universal appeal.

Overall excellent"!

Dr. Santrupt Misra
Director
Birla Management Corporation Ltd., India

"The book is unique in two respects: it focuses on innovative practices, and aims to assist in unlocking the knowledge power, so critical, to the new economy. Its structure is very innovative, where interesting cases have been appropriately blended into scholastic reading. Its language is immensely
readable; rather, it is in the form of a narrative".

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