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[[image:http://www.latrobe.edu.au/__data/assets/image/0007/162745/tns_cover_240.jpg width="166" height="249" align="right" caption="Understanding the New Statistics by Geoff Cumming"]]The book
Cumming, G. (2012). //Understanding The// //New Statistics: Effect Sizes, Confidence// //Intervals, and Meta-Analysis//. New York: Routledge The main message of the book is summarised in this short magazine article, and in this radio talk (transcript and podcast). You can download the book's [|Preface, Contents, and a sample chapter]. There is [|further information about the book] available from the publisher, and a [|Users’ Guide [PDF 114KB]] that explains how to get the best out of the book.
 * Explains estimation, with many examples.
 * Designed for any discipline that uses statistical significance testing.
 * For advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers.
 * Comes with free ESCI software.
 * May be the first evidence-based statistics textbook.
 * Assumes only prior completion of any intro statistics course.
 * See the //dance of the confidence intervals//, and many other intriguing things.