Statistics for Social Research

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Variables and their measurement....Pages 3-14
Basic tools of description: Tables....Pages 15-27
Graphs....Pages 28-40
Measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion....Pages 41-59
Descriptive statistics on SPSS....Pages 60-78
The normal curve....Pages 79-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Sampling distributions....Pages 103-117
Estimation and confidence intervals....Pages 118-133
Introduction to hypothesis testing: The z-test for a single mean....Pages 134-159
The t-test for a single mean....Pages 160-173
The z-test for a single proportion....Pages 174-184
One sample non-parametric tests....Pages 185-205
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
The t-test for the equality of two means....Pages 209-225
Analysis of variance....Pages 226-244
Ordinal tests for two or more samples....Pages 245-256
The chi-square test for independence....Pages 257-284
Front Matter....Pages 285-285
The t-test for the mean difference....Pages 287-297
Non-parametric tests for dependent samples....Pages 298-310
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Introduction to measures of association....Pages 313-318
Measures of association for nominal data....Pages 319-334
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Measures of association for ordinal data....Pages 335-355
Regression and correlation for interval/ratio data....Pages 356-385
Back Matter....Pages 386-425