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Statistics and data interpretation for social work /
"Without question, this text will be the most authoritative source of information on statistics in the human services. From my point of view, it is a definitive work that combines a rigorous pedagogy with a down to earth (commonsense) exploration of the complex and difficult issues in data anal...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Springer Publishing Company,
©[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I: Introduction and descriptive statistics. Introduction and overview
- Data presentation
- Central tendency
- Measures of variability
- Shape of distribution
- The concept of relationship and relationship between categorical variables
- The odds ratio and other measures for categorical variables
- Correlation and regression
- Standardized mean difference
- Research design and causality
- Controlling for confounding variables
- pt. II: Inferential statistics and data interpretation. An introduction to inferential statistics
- Confidence intervals for means and proportions
- The logic of statistical significance tests
- The large sample test of the mean and new concepts
- Statistical power and selected topics
- The t distribution and one-sample procedures for means
- Independent samples t test and dependent samples t test
- One-sample tests of proportions
- The chi-square test of independence
- Analysis of variance
- More significance tests and reasoning with test results
- An overview of selected multivariate procedures
- Generalizability, importance, and a data interpretation model.