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The essentials of statistics : a tool for social research / Joseph F. Healey.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2007.Description: xx, 406 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 049500975X
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HA29 .H39
Contents:
PART I. Descriptive Statistics -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Basic Descriptive Statistics: Percentages, Ratios and Rates, Tables, Charts, and Graphs -- Chapter 3. Measures of Central Tendency -- Chapter 4. Measures of Dispersion -- Chapter 5. The Normal Curve -- PART II. Inferential Statistics -- Chapter 6. Inferential Statistics, the Sampling Distribution and Estimation -- Chapter 7. Hypothesis Testing I: The One Sample Case -- Chapter 8. Hypothesis Testing II: The Two Sample Case -- Chapter 9. Hypothesis Testing III: The Analysis of Variance -- Chapter 10. Hypothesis Testing IV: Chi Square -- PART III. Measures of Association -- Chapter 11. Bivariate Association For Variables Measured at the Nominal Level -- Chapter 12. Bivariate Association For Variables Measured at the Ordinal Level -- Chapter 13. Association Between Variables Measured at the Interval-Ratio Level -- PART IV. Multivariate Techniques -- Chapter 14. Partial Correlation and Multiple Regression and Correlation -- Appendix A. Area under the Normal Curve -- Appendix B. Distribution of t. Appendix C. Distribution of Chi Square -- Appendix D. Distribution of F. Appendix E. Using Statistics: Ideas for Research Projects -- Appendix F. An Introduction to Computerized Statistics Programs (SPSS for Windows). Appendix G. Code Book for the General Social Survey, 2004. Answers to Odd-Numbered Computational Problems -- Glossary -- Index.
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Abbreviated version of: Statistics : a tool for social research.

Includes index.

PART I. Descriptive Statistics --
Chapter 1. Introduction --
Chapter 2. Basic Descriptive Statistics: Percentages, Ratios and Rates, Tables, Charts, and Graphs --
Chapter 3. Measures of Central Tendency --
Chapter 4. Measures of Dispersion --
Chapter 5. The Normal Curve --

PART II. Inferential Statistics --
Chapter 6. Inferential Statistics, the Sampling Distribution and Estimation --
Chapter 7. Hypothesis Testing I: The One Sample Case --
Chapter 8. Hypothesis Testing II: The Two Sample Case --
Chapter 9. Hypothesis Testing III: The Analysis of Variance --
Chapter 10. Hypothesis Testing IV: Chi Square --

PART III. Measures of Association --
Chapter 11. Bivariate Association For Variables Measured at the Nominal Level --
Chapter 12. Bivariate Association For Variables Measured at the Ordinal Level --
Chapter 13. Association Between Variables Measured at the Interval-Ratio Level --

PART IV. Multivariate Techniques --
Chapter 14. Partial Correlation and Multiple Regression and Correlation --
Appendix A. Area under the Normal Curve --
Appendix B. Distribution of t. Appendix C. Distribution of Chi Square --
Appendix D. Distribution of F. Appendix E. Using Statistics: Ideas for Research Projects --
Appendix F. An Introduction to Computerized Statistics Programs (SPSS for Windows). Appendix G. Code Book for the General Social Survey, 2004. Answers to Odd-Numbered Computational Problems --
Glossary --
Index.

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