Statistics
A Tool for the Social Sciences
5th Edition
Published on 2. March 1992
Book
Hardback
576 pages
978-0-534-97213-4 (ISBN)
Description
The only prerequisite to this book is high school algebra. In this new edition, a much more applied social science perspective has been brought to the book, especially with regard to multivariate analysis and the interpretation of results. This book should be of interest to undergraduate students taking a course in statistics for sociology and the social sciences in the departments of sociology, social sciences, criminology and public administration.
More details
Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
references, index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
1100 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-534-97213-4 (9780534972134)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
What is statistics? Measurement. Graphical techniques for describing data from a single variable. Numerical techniques for describing data from a single sample. Probability, inferences, and sampling distributions in the social sciences. Estimation and statistical tests of hypotheses: two samples. Statistical tests of hypotheses: the one-sample case. Estimation and statistical tests of hypotheses: two samples. Cross-classification of data. Measure of association: nominal and ordinal data. Contingency analysis: multivariate extensions. Bivariate regression and correlation. Regression and correlation: multivariate extensions. Differences among more than two population means.