An introduction to statistics for Canadian social scientists
By: Michael Haan
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Don Mills, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195441253
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Social sciences; Textbooks; Statistical methods; Sciences sociales; Manuels d'enseignement supérieur; Méthodes statistiques
Other titles: Statistics for Canadian social scientists
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One: Introduction and Univariate Statistics; title: 1. Why Should I Want to Learn Statistics?; title: 2. How Much Math Do I Need to Learn Statistics?; title: 3. Univariate Statistics; title: 4. Introduction to Probability; title: 5. The Normal Curve; title: 6. Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion; title: 7. Standard Deviations, Standard Scores, and the Normal Distribution; title: 8. Sampling; title: 9. Generalizing from Populations to Samples; title: Part Two: Bivariate Statistics; title: 10. Testing Hypotheses Between a Sample and a Population; title: 11. Measuring Association between Dummy and Interval/Ratio Variables: t-Tests with Two Samples; title: 12. Bivariate Statistics for Nominal Data; title: 13. Bivariate Statistics for Ordinal Data; title: 14. Bivariate Statistics for Interval/Ratio Data; title: 15. One-Way Analysis of Variance; title: 16. Regression 1; title: Modelling Continuous Outcomes; title: 17. Regression 2; title: Modelling Discrete/Qualitative Outcomes with Logistic Regression; title: 18. Regression Diagnostics; title: 19. Strategies for Dealing with Missing Data.