Statistics A Tool for Social Research

by Healey, Joseph F.

• ISBN13: 9780495096559
• ISBN10: 0495096555
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-14
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

STATISTICS: A TOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH, Eighth Edition, is a comprehensive, reader-friendly text that uses real-world examples, engaging exercises, and special features in every chapter to help even the most math-averse students succeed in a required statistics course. At the same time, this versatile text is appropriate for more advanced students in diverse social science disciplines, providing an accessible, well-balanced introduction to fundamental concepts of statistics and their practical application to a wide variety of contemporary social issues. The text covers hand calculations and the use of computers, providing a solid grounding in both traditional formulas and the latest SPSS statistical software package. Healey effectively breaks down even complex material to help students master key concepts and hone the skills they will need to succeed as professionals in a social science field--or simply to become "statistically literate," intelligent consumers of social research.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Descriptive Statistics

Basic Descriptive Statistics: Percentages, Ratios and Rates, Tables, Charts, and Graphs

Measures of Central Tendency

Measures of Dispersion

The Normal Curve

Inferential Statistics

Introduction to Inferential Statistics: Sampling and the Sampling Distribution

Estimation Procedures

Hypothesis Testing I: The One-Sample Case

Hypothesis Testing II: The Two-Sample Case

Hypothesis Testing III: The Analysis of Variance

Hypothesis Testing IV: Chi Square

Measures of Association

Bivariate Association: Introduction and Basic Concepts

Association Between Variables Measured at the Nominal Level

Association Between Variables Measured at the Ordinal Level

Association Between Variables Measured at the Interval-Ratio Level

Multivariate Techniques

Elaborating Bivariate Tables

Partial Correlation and Multiple Regression and Correlation

Area Under the Normal Curve

Distribution of T

Distribution of Chi Square

Distribution of F

Using Statistics: Ideas for Research Projects

Introduction to SPSS

Code Book for the General Social Survey, 2002

Basic Math

Review: Answers to Odd-Numbered Computational Problems

Glossary

Index

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