Statistics
Subtitle: a tool for social research
By: Joseph F. Healey, Steven G. Prus
Contributors: Prus, Steven G. (Steven Gerald), 1967-
Edition: 1st Canadian ed.
Publisher: Nelson Education
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 586
ISBN-13: 9780176442538
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Social sciences; Statistical methods; Statistics; Sciences sociales; Méthodes statistiques; Statistiques
Notes: Includes index.

Includes access code to Infotrac college edition, the online library.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: pt. I. Descriptive Statistics; title: 2. Basic Descriptive Statistics : Percentages, Ratios and Rates, Tables, Charts, and Graphs; title: 3. Measures of Central Tendency; title: 4. Measures of Dispersion; title: 5. The Normal Curve; title: pt. II. Inferential Statistics; title: 6. Introduction to Inferential Statistics : Sampling and the Sampling Distribution; title: 7. Estimation Procedures; title: 8. Hypothesis Testing I : The One-Sample Case; title: 9. Hypothesis Testing II : The Two-Sample Case; title: 10. Hypothesis Testing III : The Analysis of Variance; title: 11. Hypothesis Testing IV : Chi Square; title: pt. III. Bivariate Measures of Association; title: 12. Bivariate Association : Introduction and Basic Concepts; title: 13. Association Between Variables Measured at the Nominal Level; title: 14. Association Between Variables Measured at the Ordinal Level; title: 15. Association Between Variables Measured at the Interval-Ratio Level; title: pt. IV. Multivariate Techniques; title: 16. Elaborating Bivariate Tables; title: 17. Partial Correlation and Multiple Regression and Correlation; title: App. A. Area Under the Normal Curve; title: App. B. Distribution of t; title: App. C. Distribution of Chi Square; title: App. D. Distribution of F; title: App. E. Using Statistics : Ideas for Research Projects; title: App. F. An Introduction to SPSS for Windows; title: App. G. Information and Code Books for the 2001 Census and 2004 General Social Survey; title: App. H. Basic Mathematical Review; title: Answers to Odd-Numbered Computational Problems.