Elementary Statistics In Social Research
by Levin, Jack A; Fox, James Alan; Forde, David R.Edition: 10th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-01-01
Publisher(s): Allyn & Bacon
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Summary
This best-selling introduction to statistical analysis in the social sciences provides the right balance of conceptual understanding and step-by-step computational techniques. Every edition is thoroughly updated. Some exciting new features updated in this edition: bull; Problem sets have been revised and expanded, with many new problems from many fields of study: sociology, political science, psychology, economics, education, criminal justice, urban planning, health and medicine, etc. Examples have been updated throughout with the most recent data available from government and private sources. New boxed inserts, Practical and Statistical, give examples of how statistical measures are applied in everyday life.
Table of Contents
| Why the Social Researcher Uses Statistics | |
| The Nature of Social Research | |
| Why Test Hypotheses? | |
| The Stages of Social Research | |
| Using Series of Numbers to Do Social Research | |
| Functions of Statistics | |
| Looking at the Larger Picture: A Student Survey | |
| I | |
| Organizing the Data | |
| Frequency Distributions of Nominal Data | |
| Comparing Distributions | |
| Proportions and Percentages | |
| Ratios and Rates | |
| Simple Frequency Distributions of Ordinal and Interval Data | |
| Grouped Frequency Distributions of Interval Data | |
| Cumulative Distributions | |
| Percentile Ranks | |
| Dealing with Decimal Data | |
| Flexible Class Intervals | |
| Cross-Tabulations | |
| Graphic Presentations | |
| Measures of Central Tendency | |
| The Mode | |
| The Median | |
| The Mean | |
| Taking One Step at a Time | |
| Comparing the Mode, Median, and Mean | |
| Obtaining the Mode, Median, and Mean from a Simple Frequency Distribution | |
| Obtaining the Mode, Median, and Mean from a Grouped Frequency Distribution | |
| Step-by-Step Study Guide: Mode, Median, and Mean for Raw Scores | |
| Measures of Variability | |
| The Range | |
| The Mean Deviation | |
| The Variance and Standard Deviation | |
| The Raw-Score Formula for Variance and Standard Deviation | |
| The Meaning of the Standard Deviation | |
| Comparing Measures of Variability | |
| Obtaining the Variance and Standard Deviation from a Simple Frequency Distribution | |
| Obtaining the Variance and Standard Deviation from a Grouped Frequency Distribution | |
| Step-by-Step Study Guide: Variance and Standard Deviation for Raw Scores | |
| Looking at the Larger Picture: Describing Data | |
| From Description To Decision Making | |
| Probability and the Normal Curve | |
| Rules of Probability | |
| Probability Distributions | |
| The Normal Curve as a Probability Distribution | |
| Characteristics of the Normal Curve | |
| The Model and the Reality of the Normal Curve | |
| The Area Under the Normal Curve | |
| Standard Scores and the Normal Curve | |
| Finding Probability Under the Normal Curve | |
| Obtaining Percentile Ranks from the Normal Curve | |
| Step-by-Step Study Guide: Probability Under the Normal Curve | |
| Step-by-Step Study Guide: Percentile Ranks from the Normal Curve | |
| Samples and Populations | |
| Sampling Methods | |
| Sampling Error | |
| Sampling Distribution of Means | |
| Standard Error of the Mean | |
| Confidence Intervals | |
| The t Distribution | |
| Estimating Proportions | |
| Step-by-Step Study Guide: Confidence Interval for the Mean Using z | |
| Step-by-Step Study Guide: Confidence Interval for the Mean Using t | |
| Step-by-Step Study Guide: Confidence Interval for the Proportion | |
| Looking at the Larger Picture: Generalizing from Samples to Populations | |
| III | |
| Testing Differences Between Means | |
| The Null Hypothesis: No Difference Between Means | |
| The Research Hypothesis: A Difference Between Means | |
| Sampling Distribution of Differences Between Means | |
| Testing Hypotheses with the Distribution of Differences Between Means | |
| Levels of Significance | |
| Standard Error of the Difference Between Means | |
| Testing the Difference Between Means | |
| Comparing the Same Sample Measured Twice | |
| Two Sample Tests of Proportions | |
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