Understanding social statistics
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Understanding social statistics
SAGE, 2000
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical reference and index
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Description
Designed to help take the fear out of the essential use of numbers in social research, this textbook introduces students to statistics as a powerful means of revealing patterns in human behaviour. The authors provide an accessible guide to quantitative data analysis including: clear explanations of all the methods; comprehensive coverage of analytic tools; an introduction to using SPSS, the most widely used statistical analysis program; examples based on real datasets - the UK General Household Survey and the World Bank's Social Indicators of Development - available to students on the World Wide Web; helpful chapter summaries; exercises at the end of each chapter; and a glossary of key terms.
Understanding Social Statistics will be an essential textbook for courses on statistics and quantitative research across the social sciences.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: PRELIMINARIES
Numbers, Data and Analysis
Using Computers in Statistics
PART TWO: UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS
Frequencies, Proportions and Percentages
Graphics for Display
Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion
Graphics for Analysis
The Normal Curve
PART THREE: BIVARIATE ANALYSIS
Interval Data
Correlation and Regression
Categorial Data
Tables
Sampling and Inference
Hypotheses Testing
Modelling Data
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