2nd Edition

Essential Statistics For Social Research

By Michael Malec Copyright 1994
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

289 Pages
by Routledge

We need only scan a newspaper or magazine, turn on a news broadcast, or open a sociology text or journal to see that we live in an age that is heavily dependent on statistical information. The extent this dependency is such that it is rather difficult to be an educated person without having at least a passing acquaintance with basic statistics. More to the point, it is virtually impossible to be a... Read more
List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Organization and Presentation of Data -- 3 Descriptive Measures: Centrality -- 4 Measures of Dispersion -- 5 Bases of Statistical Inference. I: Probability and the Logic of Hypothesis Testing -- 6 Bases of Statistical Inference, II: Sampling and Estimation -- 7 Testing fur lb Difference Between Means -- 8 Analysis if Variance -- 9 Measuring the Association Between Two Nominal Variables -- 10 Measuring the Association Between Two Ordinal Variables -- 11 Measuring the Association between Two Interval Variables -- 12 Multivariate Analysis: three or More Variables -- Appendix -- References -- Index -- About the Book and Author.

Biography

Malec, Michael