Quantitative Data Analysis
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Quantitative Data Analysis

Doing Social Research to Test Ideas

Donald J. Treiman

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Quantitative Data Analysis

Doing Social Research to Test Ideas

Donald J. Treiman

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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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Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Year
2014
ISBN
9781118512609
Edition
1
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Evaluation & Assessment in Education
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. 

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