1st Edition

Introducing Social Statistics

By Richard Startup, Elwyn T. Whittaker Copyright 1982
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1982, this book describes those basic ideas and techniques of statistics which should be known to every social scientist. The explanations are given in careful detail at a level of mathematical sophistication which will be readily attainable by students meeting statistical methods for the first time. All the methods described are applied to, and sometimes are motivated... Read more

Preface.  1. Statistics and the Social Sciences  2. Frequency Distributions, Graphic Representation and Measures of Central Tendency  3. Measures of Variation and the Standard Normal Distribution  4. Probability  5. Sampling and Estimation  6. Hypothesis Testing with Single Samples  7. Statistical Inference with Two Samples  8. An Introduction to Analysis Variance  9. The Chi-Square Test and Contingency Problems with Nominal Scales  10. Regression and Correlation  11. Sources of Statistics.  References.  Appendix: Statistical Tables.  Answers to Exercises.  Index.

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Richard Startup and Elwyn T. Whittaker