For courses in Statistics and Research Methods. aStudent Friendly, Step-by-Step Approach. Designed to be hands-on with the user performing the analyses alongside on their computer as they read through each chapter. Without question, statistics is one of the most challenging courses for students in the social and behavioral sciences. Enrolling in their first statistics course, students are often apprehensive or extremely anxious toward the subject matter. And while SPSS is one of the more easy-to-use statistical software programs available, for anxious students who realize they not only have to learn statistics but also new software, the task can seem insurmountable.