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Compassionate Statistics : Applied Quantitative Analysis for Social Services (with Exercises and Instructions in SPSS).

Compassionate Statistics: Applied Quantitative Analysis for Social Services (With Instructions for SPSS 14.0) is an attempt to "de-mythologize" a content area that is both essential for professional social service practitioners, yet dreaded by some of the most experienced among them. Using...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Faherty, Dr. Vincent E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1
  • Introduction, Overview, and Nondefinitions; Chapter 2
  • Levels of Data: Nominal, Ordinal, and Scale; Chapter 3
  • Presenting Data in Tables; Chapter 4
  • Presenting Data in Figures; Chapter 5
  • The 3 Ms: Mean, Median, and Mode; Chapter 6
  • Standard Deviations, Ranges, and Quartiles; Chapter 7
  • Other Descriptive Statistics; Chapter 8
  • Probability and Statistical Significance; Chapter 9
  • Chi-Square Test of Independence; Chapter 10
  • Correlation: Scattergrams; Chapter 11
  • Correlation: Spearman's rho and Pearson's r.
  • Chapter 12
  • t-Test for Paired SamplesChapter 13
  • t-Test for Independent Samples; Chapter 14
  • One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) With Post Hoc Tests; Chapter 15
  • Nonparametric Alternatives to Common Parametric Tests; Appendix A: Getting Started With SPSS; Appendix B: SPSS Data Sets; Appendix C: Outline of Common Univariate and Bivariate Statistical Procedures; Appendix D: Outline of Common Parametric and Nonparametric Inferential Tests; Appendix E: Table of Random Numbers With Instructions; Appendix F: Glossary of Terms; Index; About the Author.