Chris Spatz ’65, professor emeritus of psychology at Hendrix, is the author of “Statistical Techniques and Analysis,” a chapter in a new two-volume reference handbook titled 21st Century Psychology: A Reference Handbook published by Sage Publications. The chapter, addressed to college students, gives an overview of statistical methods in psychology and identifies recent developments in the field.
Spatz is the author of Basic Statistics: Tales of Distributions, now in its ninth edition, and is a co-author of Research Methods in Psychology: Ideas, Techniques, and Reports, which was published recently by McGraw-Hill. Spatz was also a section editor for the John Wiley publication, Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science.