Introduction to statistics for social sciences
By: Scott R. Colwell, Edward M. Carter
Contributors: Carter, Edward, 1951-, author
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Whitby, Ontario]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9780070735224
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Social sciences; Textbooks; Statistical methods; Sciences sociales; Manuels d'enseignement supérieur; Méthodes statistiques
Other titles: Statistics for social sciences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Role of Statistics in the Social Sciences; title: Describing Your Data: Frequencies, Cross Tabulations, and Graphs; title: Describing Your Data: Measures of Central Tendency, Dispersion, and Shape; title: A Review of Probability Theory; title: The Normal Curve; title: Getting From the Sample to the Population: Sample Distribution versus Sampling Distributions; title: The Foundations of Inferential Statistics: The Scientific Method and Hypotheses Testing; title: Parameter Estimation Using Confidence Intervals; title: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing I: Single Sample T-Test and Z-Zest; title: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing II: Independent and Paired Sample T-Test; title: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing III: One-Way Analysis of Variance; title: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing IV: Bivariate Correlation and Regression; title: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing V: Chi-square and Correlation for Nominal and Ordinal Data.