Quantitative Data Analysis with Minitab

A Guide for Social Scientists

Alan Bryman, Duncan Cramer

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• Print ISBN: 9780415123235
• eBook ISBN: 9781134805730
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Quantitative data analysis is now a compulsory component of most degree courses in the social sciences and students are increasingly reliant on computers for the analysis of data. Quantitative Data Analysis with Minitab explains statistical tests for Minitab users using the same formulae free, non technical approach, as the very successful SPPS version.
Students will learn a wide range of quantitative data analysis techniques and become familiar with how these techniques can be implemented through the latest version of Minitab. Techniques covered include univariate analysis (with frequency table, dispersion and histograms), bivariate (with contingency tables correlation, analysis of varience and non-parametric tests) and multivariate analysis (with multiple regression, path analysis, covarience and factor analysis). In addition the book covers issues such as sampling, statistical significance, conceptualisation and measurement and the selection of appropriate tests. Each chapter concludes with a set of exercises.
Social science students will welcome this integrated, non mathematical introduction to quantitative data anlysis and the minitab package.

Table of contents

• COVER PAGE
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• FIGURES
• TABLES
• PREFACE
• CHAPTER 1: DATA ANALYSIS AND THE RESEARCH PROCESS
• CHAPTER 2: ANALYSING DATA WITH COMPUTERS: FIRST STEPS WITH MINITAB
• CHAPTER 3: ANALYSING DATA WITH COMPUTERS: FURTHER STEPS WITH MINITAB
• CHAPTER 4: CONCEPTS AND THEIR MEASUREMENT
• CHAPTER 5: SUMMARIZING DATA
• CHAPTER 6: SAMPLING AND STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE
• CHAPTER 7: BIVARIATE ANALYSIS: EXPLORING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SCORES ON TWO VARIABLES
• CHAPTER 8: BIVARIATE ANALYSIS: EXPLORING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TWO VARIABLES
• CHAPTER 9: MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS: EXPLORING DIFFERENCES AMONG THREE OR MORE VARIABLES
• CHAPTER 10: MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS: EXPLORING RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THREE OR MORE VARIABLES
• CHAPTER 11: AGGREGATING VARIABLES: EXPLORATORY PRINCIPAL-COMPONENTS ANALYSIS
• APPENDIX I: CRITICAL VALUES OF THE PEARSON PRODUCT: MOMENT CORRELATION COEFFICIENT
• APPENDIX II: CRITICAL VALUES FOR THE SPEARMAN RANK-ORDER: CORRELATION COEFFICIENT
• ANSWERS TO EXERCISES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY