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, Vincent E. (Vincent Edward), 1939-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2008.
Temas:
SPSS (Computer file)
SPSS (Logiciel)
Social service > Statistical methods.
Evaluation research (Social action programs) > Statistical methods.
Social sciences > Statistical methods.
Recherche évaluative (Programmes d'action sociale) > Méthodes statistiques.
Sciences sociales > Méthodes statistiques.
Service social > Méthodes statistiques.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
Social sciences > Statistical methods
Evaluation research (Social action programs) > Statistical methods
Social service > Statistical methods
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction, overview, and nondefinitions
  • Levels of data : nominal, ordinal, and scale
  • Presenting data in tables
  • Presenting data in figures
  • The 3 M's : mean, median, and mode
  • Standard deviations, ranges, and quartiles
  • Other descriptive statistics
  • Probability and statistical significance
  • Chi-square test of independence
  • Correlation : scattergrams
  • Correlation : Spearman's rho and Pearson's r
  • T-test for paired samples
  • T-test for independent samples
  • One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with post hoc tests
  • Nonparametric alternatives to common parametric tests.

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