
The essentials of statistics : a tool for social research
Title:
The essentials of statistics : a tool for social research
Author:
Healey, Joseph F., 1945-
ISBN:
9780495601432
9780495834281
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
Australia ; Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, ©2010.
Physical Description:
xix, 440 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Basic descriptive statistics : percentages, ratios and rates, frequency distributions -- Charts and graphs -- Measures of central tendency -- Measures of dispersion -- The normal curve -- Introduction to inferential statistics, the sampling distribution, and estimation -- 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 -- Introduction to bivariate association and measures of association for variables measured at the nominal level -- Association between variables measured at the ordinal level -- Association between variables measured at the interval-ratio level -- Partial correlation and multiple regression and correlation.
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