Statistics : A Tool for Social Research
ISBN: 9780495096559 | 0495096555
Edition: 8thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 2/14/2008
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STATISTICS: A TOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH, Eighth Edition, is a comprehensive, reader-friendly text that uses real-world examples, engaging exercises, and special features in every chapter to help even the most math-averse students succeed in a required statistics course. At the same time, this versatile text is appropriate for more advanced students in diverse social science disciplines, providing an accessible, well-balanced introduction to fundamental concepts of statistics and their practical application to a wide variety of contemporary socia... MORE
| Introduction | |
| Descriptive Statistics | |
| Basic Descriptive Statistics: Percentages, Ratios and Rates, Tables, Charts, and Graphs | |
| Measures of Central Tendency | |
| Measures of Dispersion | |
| The Normal Curve | |
| Inferential Statistics | |
| Introduction to Inferential Statistics: Sampling and the Sampling Distribution | |
| Estimation Procedures | ... MORE |
| Hypothesis Testing I: The One-Sample Case | |
| Hypothesis Testing II: The Two-Sample Case | |
| Hypothesis Testing III: The Analysis of Variance | |
| Hypothesis Testing IV: Chi Square | |
| Measures of Association | |
| Bivariate Association: Introduction and Basic Concepts | |
| Association Between Variables Measured at the Nominal Level | |
| Association Between Variables Measured at the Ordinal Level | |
| Association Between Variables Measured at the Interval-Ratio Level | |
| Multivariate Techniques | |
| Elaborating Bivariate Tables | |
| Partial Correlation and Multiple Regression and Correlation | |
| Area Under the Normal Curve | |
| Distribution of T | |
| Distribution of Chi Square | |
| Distribution of F | |
| Using Statistics: Ideas for Research Projects | |
| Introduction to SPSS | |
| Code Book for the General Social Survey, 2002 | |
| Basic Math | |
| Review: Answers to Odd-Numbered Computational Problems | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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