Fundamentals of social statistics

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Elifson, Kirk W. , 1943- (Author), Haber, Audrey (Author), Runyon, Richard P. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : McGraw-Hill , c1990
Edition:2nd ed
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The definition of statistical analysis
  • 2. Basic mathematical concepts
  • 3. Frequency distributions and graphing techniques
  • 4. Percentiles
  • 5. Measures of central tendency
  • 6. Measures of dispersion
  • 7. The standard deviation and the standard normal distribution
  • 8. An introduction to contingency tables
  • 9. Correlation
  • 10. Regression and prediction
  • 11. Multivariate data analysis
  • 12. Inferential statistics: parametric tests of significance
  • 13. Introduction to statistical inference
  • 14. Statistical inference and continuous variables
  • 15. An introduction to the analysis of variance
  • 16. statistical inference with categorical variables: chi square and related measures
  • 17. Statistical inference: ordinally scaled variables