Compassionate statistics
Subtitle: applied quantitative analysis for social services (with instructions for SPSS 14.0)
By: Vincent E. Faherty.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781412939829
Subjects: SPSS (Computer file); Social service -- Statistical methods; Evaluation research (Social action programs) -- Statistical methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, overview, and non-definitions; title: Levels of data : nominal, ordinal, and scale; title: Presenting data in tables; title: Presenting data in figures; title: The 3 M's : mean, median, and mode; title: Standard deviations, ranges, and quartiles; title: Other descriptive statistics; title: Probability and statistical significance; title: Chi-square test of independence; title: Correlation : scattergrams; title: Correlation : Spearman's rho and Pearson's R; title: T-test for paired samples; title: T-test for independent samples; title: One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with post-hoc tests; title: Nonparametric alternatives to common parametric tests.