Basic Statistics for Social Research

KEY TERMS -- CHECK QUIZ ANSWERS -- EXERCISES -- Chapter 3 Central Tendency -- The Basic Idea of Central Tendency -- The Mode -- The Mode and Nominal Data -- The Mode and Ordinal Data -- The Mode and Interval/Ratio Data -- The Median -- The Median and Ordinal Data -- The Median and Interval/Ratio Dat...

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Autor principal: Hanneman, Robert A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2012.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • BASIC STATISTICS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH
  • Contents
  • Tables and Figures
  • Preface
  • About the Authors
  • PART I UNIVARIATE DESCRIPTION
  • Chapter 1 Using Statistics
  • Why Study Statistics?
  • Tasks for Statistics: Describing, Inferring, Testing, Predicting
  • Describing Variation and Covariation
  • Inferring to the Population
  • Testing Hypotheses
  • Predicting
  • Statistics in the Research Process
  • Theories and Social Research
  • The Research Report
  • Basic Elements of Research: Units of Analysis and Variables
  • Units of Analysis
  • Variables
  • SUMMARY
  • KEY TERMS
  • CHECK QUIZ ANSWERS
  • EXERCISES
  • Chapter 2 Displaying One Distribution
  • Summarizing Variation in One Variable
  • Frequency Distributions for Nominal Variables
  • Frequency Chart Rules
  • Relative Frequencies (Percentages and Proportions)
  • Graphical Displays
  • Frequency Distributions for Ordinal Variables
  • Frequency Chart Rules
  • Valid Frequencies (or in SPSS, Valid Percent)
  • Cumulative Relative Frequencies
  • Graphical Displays
  • Frequency Distributions for Interval/Ratio Variables
  • Forming Categories
  • Frequency Chart Rules
  • Graphical Displays
  • Summarizing Data Using Excel
  • Index of Qualitative Variation
  • Segregation Index (or Index of Dissimilarity)
  • Dispersion of Interval/Ratio Data
  • The Range
  • The Interquartile Range
  • Mean Absolute Deviation
  • Variance
  • Standard Deviation
  • Coefficient of Variation
  • SUMMARY
  • KEY TERMS
  • CHECK QUIZ ANSWERS
  • EXERCISES
  • Chapter 5 Describing the Shape of a Distribution
  • The Basic Ideas of Distributional Shape
  • The Shape of Nominal and Ordinal Distributions
  • Visualizing Shape with the Box-and-Whiskers Plot
  • Unimodality
  • The Basic Idea
  • Applying the Idea
  • Skewness
  • The Basic Idea
  • Statistical Measures of Skewness
  • Kurtosis
  • The Basic Idea
  • Statistical Measures of Kurtosis
  • Using Excel to Calculate Skewness and Kurtosis
  • Some Common Distributional Shapes
  • Equal Probabilities
  • Exponential Distributions
  • Some Statistical Distributions: Z, t, F, and Chi-Squared
  • SUMMARY
  • KEY TERMS
  • CHECK QUIZ ANSWERS
  • EXERCISES
  • Chapter 6 The Normal Distribution
  • Introduction to the Normal Distribution
  • Properties of Normal Distributions
  • Range
  • Symmetry
  • Unimodality
  • Shape
  • The Standard Normal, or Z, Distribution
  • Properties of the Z Distribution

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