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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0176725083
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0176725082
• Author: Joseph F. Healey

Statistics: A Tool for Social Research, Fourth Canadian Edition, helps to construct and develop the skills necessary for social science majors to become statistically literate―computational competence, appreciation of statistics, and the ability to read professional social science literature―from a uniquely Canadian perspective. To do so, the text provides a comprehensive, yet exceptionally accessible and reader-friendly discussion of statistics that is appropriate for students with varying levels of mathematical skill, ranging from those who battle statistical “anxiety” to those adept at math. The text provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts of statistics in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step process, and equally stresses hand-based calculation and interpretation of statistics. Students learn to use and interpret statistics in a variety of settings, with most examples, demonstrations, and applications of statistics intended for a diversity of Canadian social issues and social science disciplines, including sociology, political science, social work, public administration, criminology and criminal justice, and gerontology. By providing a solid grounding in both traditional formulas and the use of the latest SPSS statistical software package, Healey and Prus help students to master key statistical concepts and hone the skills they will need to succeed as professionals in a social science field–or simply to become “statistically literate,” intelligent consumers of social research.
Table contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I. Descriptive Statistics

Chapter 2. Basic Descriptive Statistics: Tables, Percentages, Ratios and

Chapter 3. Measures of Central Tendency

Chapter 4. Measures of Dispersion

Chapter 5. The Normal Curve

Part II. Inferential Statistics

Chapter 6. Introduction to Inferential Statistics, the Sampling Distribution, an

Chapter 7. Hypothesis Testing I: The One-Sample Case

Chapter 8. Hypothesis Testing II: The Two-Sample Case

Chapter 9. Hypothesis Testing III: The Analysis of Variance

Chapter 10. Hypothesis Testing IV: Chi Square

Part III. Bivariate Measures of Association

Chapter 11. Bivariate Association for Nominal and Ordinal-Level Variables

Chapter 12. Association between Variables Measured at the Interval-Ratio Level

Part IV. Multivariate Techniques

Chapter 13. Partial Correlation and Multiple Regression and Correlation

Appendix A. Area under the Normal Curve

Appendix B. Distribution of t

Appendix C. Distribution of Chi Square

Appendix D. Distribution of F

Appendix E. Using Statistics: Ideas for Research Projects

Appendix F. An Introduction to SPSS

Appendix G. Codebooks for All Datasets

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