Social Statistics : An Introduction to Using SPSS

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Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-02-18
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Summary

This introductory statistics text intended for the social sciences presents basic concepts and procedures in statistical analysis and integrates SPSS demonstrations and exercises throughout the book.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started: Fundamentals of Research Design

2. Levels of Measurement

3. Creating an SPSS Data File

4. Analyzing Frequency Distributions

5. Measures of Central Tendency

6. Measures of Dispersion

7. Analyzing Contingency Tables

8. Measures of Association for Contingency Tables

9. Measures of Association for Numerical Variables

10. An Introduction to Making Inferences

11. Making Inferences for Single Variables

12. Making Inferences for Associations Between 13.

13. Making Inferences Involving Numerical Variables

Appendix A: Area Under the Normal Curve

Appendix B: Distribution of the Critical Values of Chi-Square

Appendix C: Distribution of the Critical Values of Student’s t

Appendix D: Distribution of the Critical Values of F

Appendix E: Codebook for the gss96subset File

Appendix F: Bells and Whistles: Advanced Features of SPSS

Appendix G: Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises

Index

Glossary

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