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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.