Statistics A Tool for Social Research

by Healey, Joseph F.

• ISBN13: 9780534557850
• ISBN10: 0534557856
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-30
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

A comprehensive, student-oriented text that provides students a challenging first look at social statistics by illustrating the application of statistics to contemporary social issues. Students learn to read and interpret statistics in a variety of settings. Each chapter is complete with numerous practice exercises, problems, and demonstrations and applications of the latest SPSS and in this edition - MicroCase- statistical software packages to reinforce chapter concepts, operations, and formulas. The book's primary emphasis is on developing the following skills necessary for students to become "statistically literate": computational competence; appreciation of statistics; and the ability to read professional social science literature.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(22)
Part I Descriptive Statistics
Basic Descriptive Statistics: Percentages, Ratios and Rates, Tables, Charts, and Graphs	22	(45)
Measures of Central Tendency	67	(23)
Measures of Dispersion	90	(31)
The Normal Curve	121	(21)
Part II Inferential Statistics
Introduction to Inferential Statistics: Sampling and the Sampling Distribution	142	(15)
Estimation Procedures	157	(24)
Hypothesis Testing I: The One-Sample Case	181	(29)
Hypothesis Testing II: The Two-Sample Case	210	(28)
Hypothesis Testing III: The Analysis of Variance	238	(30)
Hypothesis Testing IV: Chi Square	268	(29)
Part III Measures of Association
Bivariate Association: Introduction and Basic Concepts	297	(23)
Association Between Variables Measured at the Nominal Level	320	(20)
Association Between Variables Measured at the Ordinal Level	340	(30)
Association Between Variables Measured at the Interval-Ratio Level	370	(33)
Part IV Multivariate Techniques
Elaborating Bivariate Tables	403	(28)
Partial Correlation and Multiple Regression and Correlation	431