Statistics: A Tool for Social Research (Paperback)

1. Introduction. PART I: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS. 2. Basic Descriptive Statistics: Percentages, Ratios and Rates, Tables, Charts, and Graphs. 3. Measures of Central Tendency. 4. Measures of Dispersion. 5. The Normal Curve. PART II: INFERENTIAL STATISTICS. 6. Introduction to Inferential Statistics: Sampling and the Sampling Distribution. 7. Estimation Procedures. 8. Hypothesis Testing I: The One-Sample Case. 9. Hypothesis Testing II: The Two-Sample Case. 10. Hypothesis Testing III: The Analysis of Variance. 11. Hypothesis Testing IV: Chi Square. PART III: BIVARIATE MEASURES OF ASSOCIATION. 12. Association Between Variables Measured at the Nominal Level. 13. Association Between Variables Measured at the Ordinal Level. 14. Association Between Variables Measured at the Interval-Ratio Level. PART IV: MULTIVARIATE TECHNIQUES. 15. Elaborating Bivariate Tables. 16. Partial Correlation and Multiple Regression and Correlation.