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Healey, Joseph F.,

The essentials of statistics : a tool for social research / Joseph F. Healey. - Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2007. - xx, 406 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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.

ISBN: 049500975X

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

LC Class. No.: HA29 / .H39