Providing information from data preparation and mean, median and mode, to regression, Lisa Daniels and Nicholas Minot use concise descriptions to help students understand the concepts behind statistics rather than the derivations of the formulas. Examples within the text come from criminal justice, economics, political science, psychology, public health and sociology, in addition to news articles on social science research. The book also includes three introductory chapters on research and a final chapter for writing up results and presenting data analyses.