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This book is an accessible introduction to quantitative data analysis, concentrating on the key issues facing those new to research, such as how to decide which statistical procedure is suitable, and how to interpret the subsequent results. Each chapter includes illustrative examples and a set of exercises that allows readers to test their understanding of the topic. The book, written for graduate students in the social sciences, public health, and education, offers a practical approach to making sociological sense out of a body of quantitative data. The book also will be useful to more experienced researchers who need a readily accessible handbook on quantitative methods.
The author has posted stata files, updates and data sets at his website http://tinyurl.com/Treiman-stata-files-data-sets.
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Information
CHAPTER
5
INTRODUCTION
TO
CORRELATION
AND
REGRESSION
(ORDINARY
LEAST
SQUARES)
WHAT
THIS
CHAPTER
IS
ABOUT
So
far
we
have
been
dealing
with
procedures
for
analyzing
categorical
data.
We
now
turn
to
a
powerful
body
of
techniques
that
can
be
applied
when
the
dependent
variable
is
an
interval
or
ratio
variable:
ordinary
least-squares
regression
and
correlation
analysis.
In
this
chapter
we
deal
with
the
two-variable
case,
where
we
have
a
dependent
variable
and
a
single
independent
variable,
to
illustrate
the
logic.
In
the
following
two
chapters
we
deal
with
multiple
regression,
which
is
used
when
we
want
to
explore
the
effects
of
sev-
eral
independent
variables
on
a
dependent
variable,
the
typical
case
in
social
science
research.
Table of contents
- Quantitative Data Analysis: Doing Social Research to Test Ideas