Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences

ISBN 13:
9780205646418
ISBN 10:
0205646417
Edition: 4th
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 04/01/2008
Publisher: Pearson
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Summary

Assuming no prior knowledge of statistics, these authors combine their varied backgroundsone a statistician, the other a social scientistto introduce statistical methods with a high degree of statistical accuracy and a wealth of examples that are interesting and relevant to social scientists.The FourthEdition has been both updated and improved to integrate real-world data into examples and exercises, and make coverage more accessible throughout.

Introduction
Introduction to statistical methodology
Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics
The role of computers in statistics
Chapter summary
Sampling and Measurement
Variables and their measurement
Randomization
Sampling variability and potential bias
other probability sampling methods
Chapter summary
Descriptive statistics
Describing data with tables and graphs
Describing the center of the data
Describing variability of the data
Measure of position
Bivariate descriptive statistics
Sample statistics and population parameters
Chapter summary
Probability Distributions
Introduction to probability
Probablitity distributions for discrete and continuous variables
The normal probability distribution
Sampling distributions describe how statistics vary
Sampling distributions of sample means
Review: Probability, sample data, and sampling distributions
Chapter summary
Statistical inference: estimation
Point and interval estimation
Confidence interval for a proportion
Confidence interval for a mean
Choice of sample size
Confidence intervals for median and other parameters
Chapter summary
Statistical Inference: Significance Tests
Steps of a significance test
Significance test for a eman
Significance test for a proportion
Decisions and types of errors in tests
Limitations of significance tests
Calculating P (Type II error)
Small-sample test for a proportion: the binomial distribution
Chapter summary
Comparison of Two Groups
Preliminaries for comparing groups
Categorical data: comparing two proportions
Quantitative data: comparing two means
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Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences

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0205646417

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