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Elifson, Kirk W.,

Fundamentals of social statistics / Kirk W. Elifson, Richard P. Runyon, and Audrey Haber. - 2nd ed. - New York : McGraw-Hill, c1990. - xiii, 574 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes Bibliographical references and index

Part 1. Introduction
Chapter 1. The Definition of Statistical Analysis
Chapter 2. Basic Mathematical Concept

Part 2. Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 3. Frequency Distribution and Graphing Techniques
Chapter 4. Percentiles
Chapter 5. Measure of Central Tendency
Chapter 6. Measures of Dispersion
Chapter 7. The Standard Deviation and the Standard Normal Distribution
Chapter 8. An Introduction to Contingency Tables
Chapter 9. Correlation
Chapter 10. Regression and Prediction
Chapter 11. Multivariate Data Analysis

Part 3. Inferential Statistics: Parametric Tests of Significance
Chapter 12. Probability
Chapter 13. Introduction to Statistical Inference
Chapter 14. Statistical Inference and Continuous Variables
Chapter 15. An Introduction to the Analysis of Variance

Part 4. Inferential Statistics : Nonparametric Test of Significance
Chapter 16. Statistical Inference with Categorical Variables: Chi Square and Related Measures
Chapter 17. Statistical Inference: Ordinally Scaled Variables


ISBN: 0075572923 0070194602 (instructor's manual)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social sciences--Statistical methods.
Statistics.

LC Class. No.: HA29 / .E482