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Statistics for the Social Sciences
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Do your students lack confidence in their ability to handle quantitative work? Do they get confused about how to enter statistical data on SAS, SPSS, and Excel programs? The new Third Edition of the best-selling Statistics for the Social Sciences is the solution to these dilemmas!
Popular in previous editions, the 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 can be used so that students come to appreciate their usefulness rather than fear them. Statistics for the Social Sciences emphasizes the analysis and interpretation of data to give students a feel for how data interpretation is related to the methods by which the information was obtained. The book includes lists of key concepts, chapter exercises, topic boxes, and more.
Statistics for the Social Sciences is an excellent text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying statistics across the social sciences. It can also be used in research methods courses that cover quantitative applications in some depth. An Instructor?s CD-ROM containing data sets, PowerPoint slides, exercises, and answers will be available free-of-charge to professors adopting this text.
Popular in previous editions, the 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 can be used so that students come to appreciate their usefulness rather than fear them. Statistics for the Social Sciences emphasizes the analysis and interpretation of data to give students a feel for how data interpretation is related to the methods by which the information was obtained. The book includes lists of key concepts, chapter exercises, topic boxes, and more.
Statistics for the Social Sciences is an excellent text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying statistics across the social sciences. It can also be used in research methods courses that cover quantitative applications in some depth. An Instructor?s CD-ROM containing data sets, PowerPoint slides, exercises, and answers will be available free-of-charge to professors adopting this text.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note to Students
- 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 Tabless
- 7. Statistical Inference and Tests of Significance
- 8. Probability Distributions and One-Sample z and t Tests
- 9. Two-Sample 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
- Appendix 1: Proportions of Area Under Standard Normal Curve
- Appendix 2: Distribution of t
- Appendix 3: Critical Values of F for p = .05, .01, and .001
- Appendix 4: Critical Values of Chi-Square
- Appendix 5: Critical Values of the Correlation Coefficient
- Answers to Selected Exercises
- Glossary
- Index
- About the Author