The essentials of statistics
Subtitle: a tool for social research
By: Joseph F. Healey
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Australia; Belmont, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780495601432; 9780495834281
Subjects: Statistical methods; Statistics; Social sciences
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Basic descriptive statistics : percentages, ratios and rates, frequency distributions; title: Charts and graphs; title: Measures of central tendency; title: Measures of dispersion; title: The normal curve; title: Introduction to inferential statistics, the sampling distribution, and estimation; title: Hypothesis testing I : the one-sample case; title: Hypothesis testing II : the two-sample case; title: Hypothesis testing III : the analysis of variance; title: Hypothesis testing IV : chi square; title: Introduction to bivariate association and measures of association for variables measured at the nominal level; title: Association between variables measured at the ordinal level; title: Association between variables measured at the interval-ratio level; title: Partial correlation and multiple regression and correlation.