(eBook PDF) Understanding Social Statistics 2nd Edition – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
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- ISBN-10 : 1412910544
- ISBN-13 : 978-1412910545
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This fully revised, expanded and updated Second Edition of the bestselling textbook by Jane Fielding and Nigel Gilbert provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide to quantitative data analysis. Designed to help take the fear out of the use of numbers in social research, this textbook introduces students to statistics as a powerful means of revealing patterns in human behavior. The textbook covers everything typically included in an introductory course on social statistics for students in the social sciences and the authors have taken the opportunity of this Second Edition to bring the data sources as current as possible. The book is full of up-to-date examples and useful and clear illustrations using the latest SPSS software.
table of contents:
Part I: General Orientation
1:The Location and Limits of Quantitative Analysis
2:The Logic of Social Statistics
3:Calculations and Computers
Part II: Univariate Analysis
4:Introducing Univariate Analysis
5:Measures of Central Tendency
6:Measures of Dispersion
7:Charts and Graphs
8:The Normal Curve
Part III: Bivariate Analysis
9:Understanding Relationships
10:Bivariate Tables
11:Scatterplot Analysis
12:Proportional Reduction in Error Statistics
13:Statistics for Categorical Relationships
14:Statistics for Continuous Connections
Part IV: Multivariate Analysis
15:Taking Additional Variables into Account
16:The Elaboration Model
17:Multiple Regression
Part V: Sampling and Inference
18:Samples and Populations
19:Point Estimates, Confidence Intervals, and Confidence Levels
20:Hypothesis Testing
21:Various Significance Tests
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