The essentials of statistics : a tool for social research / Joseph F. Healey.
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TextPublisher: Australia ; Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, c2010Edition: 2nd edDescription: xix, 440 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 0495601438; 9780495601432; 9780495834281 (pbk.); 0495834289 (pbk.)Subject(s): Social sciences -- Statistical methods | StatisticsDDC classification: 519.50243 LOC classification: HA29 | .H388 2010Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes index.
Introduction -- Basic descriptive statistics : percentages, ratios and rates, frequency distributions -- Charts and graphs -- Measures of central tendency -- Measures of dispersion -- The normal curve -- Introduction to inferential statistics, the sampling distribution, and estimation -- Hypothesis testing I : the one-sample case -- Hypothesis testing II : the two-sample case -- Hypothesis testing III : the analysis of variance -- Hypothesis testing IV : chi square -- Introduction to bivariate association and measures of association for variables measured at the nominal level -- Association between variables measured at the ordinal level -- Association between variables measured at the interval-ratio level -- Partial correlation and multiple regression and correlation.
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