Review of Statistics Applied to Education and Psychology

Abstract

Reviews the book, Statistics Applied to Education and Psychology by T. Clarence Gray and David F. Votaw (1939). The authors have prepared a book quite appropriate for a text in a beginning course in statistics. As might be expected from the positions of the authors, the book's explanations and examples are concerned primarily with the viewpoint of one interested in education and educational psychology rather than in purely scientific psychology, though the value to the last group is not in any way lessened by such an emphasis. If the book can be said to have any merit over other texts in current use, it is due to the clarity of explanation, the presentation of sample situations, and the inclusion of an abundance of, for the most part, well-chosen exercises at the end of each chapter. The book can probably be used in a semester course without significant abridgment or omission of any important parts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)