Statistics for the social sciences

"Like previous editions, this Third Edition continues to help build students' confidence and ability in doing statistical analysis by slowly moving from concepts that require little computational work to those that require more. Author R. Mark Sirkin once again demonstrates how statistics...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sirkin, R. Mark (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications , c2006
Edition:3rd ed
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Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. How we reason
  • 2. Levels of measurement and forms of data
  • 3. Defining variables
  • 4. Measuring central tendency
  • 5. Measuring dispersion
  • 6. Constructing and interpreting contingency tables
  • 7. Statistical inference and tests of significance
  • 8. Probability distributions and one-sample z and t tests
  • 9. Two-samples t tests
  • 10. One way analysis of variance
  • 11. Measuring association in contingency tables
  • 12. The chi-square test
  • 13. Correlation and regression analysis
  • 14. Additional aspects of correlation and regression analysis