Statistics: a tool for social research

✍ Scribed by Healey, Joseph F.; Prus, Steven G

• Publisher: Nelson College Indigenous; Nelson Education
• Year: 2015;2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 580
• Edition: Third Canadian edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Statistics: A Tool for Social Research, Third Canadian Edition, helps to construct and develop the skills necessary for social science majors to become statistically literate―computational competence, appreciation of statistics, and the ability to read professional social science literature―from a uniquely Canadian perspective. To do so, the text provides a comprehensive, yet exceptionally accessible and reader-friendly discussion of statistics that is appropriate for students with varying levels of mathematical skill, ranging from those who battle statistical “anxiety” to those adept at math. The text provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts of statistics in an easy-to-follow, step-by-step process, and equally stresses hand-based calculation and interpretation of statistics. Students learn to use and interpret statistics in a variety of settings, with most examples, demonstrations, and applications of statistics intended for a diversity of Canadian social issues and social science disciplines, including sociology, political science, social work, public administration, criminology and criminal justice, and gerontology. By providing a solid grounding in both traditional formulas and the use of the latest SPSS statistical software package, Healey and Prus help students to master key statistical concepts and hone the skills they will need to succeed as professionals in a social science field--or simply to become "statistically literate," intelligent consumers of social research.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Frequently Used Formulas......Page 2
Brief Contents......Page 8
Detailed Contents......Page 10
Preface to the Third Canadian Edition......Page 17
Prologue: Basic Mathematics Review......Page 26
Chapter 1 Introduction......Page 35
Part 1: Descriptive Statistics......Page 61
Chapter 2 Basic Descriptive Statistics: Percentages, Ratios and Rates, Tables, Charts, and Graphs......Page 63
Chapter 3 Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion......Page 101
Chapter 4 The Normal Curve......Page 138
Part 2 Inferential Statistics......Page 167
Chapter 5 Introduction to Inferential Statistics: Sampling and the Sampling Distribution......Page 169
Chapter 6 Estimation Procedures......Page 187
Chapter 7 Hypothesis Testing I: The One-Sample Case......Page 220
Chapter 8 Hypothesis Testing II: The Two-Sample Case......Page 260
Chapter 9 Hypothesis Testing III: The Analysis of Variance......Page 293
Chapter 10 Hypothesis Testing IV: Chi Square......Page 323
Part 3: Bivariate Measures of Association......Page 355
Chapter 11 Introduction to Bivariate Association and Measures of Association for Variables Measured at the Nominal Level......Page 357
Chapter 12 Association Between Variables Measured at the Ordinal Level......Page 388
Chapter 13 Association Between Variables Measured at the Interval-Ratio Level......Page 429
Part 4 Multivariate Techniques......Page 467
Chapter 14 Partial Correlation and Multiple Regression and Correlation......Page 469
Appendix A Area Under the Normal Curve......Page 506
Appendix B Distribution of t......Page 510
Appendix C Distribution of Chi Square......Page 511
Appendix D Distribution of F......Page 512
Appendix E Using Statistics: Ideas for Research Projects......Page 514
Appendix F An Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows......Page 520
Appendix G Information and Code Books for the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey and 2009 General Social Survey......Page 535
Answers to Odd-Numbered Computational Problems......Page 552
Glossary......Page 564
Index......Page 570

✦ Subjects

Nonfiction;Textbooks;Academic;Grad School