Social Statistics : Managing Data, Conducting Analyses, Presenting Results (Paperback, 2 New edition)

Chapter 1: Life in a Data-Laden Age: Finding and Managing Datasets / Chapter 2: The Art of Visual Storytelling: Creating Accurate Tables and Graphs / Chapter 3: Summarizing Center and Diversity: Basic Descriptive Statistics / Chapter 4: Using Sample Crosstabs to Talk about Populations: The Chi-Square Test / Chapter 5:Using a Sample Mean or Proportion to Talk about a Population:Confidence Intervals / Chapter 6: Using Multiple Sample Means to Talk about Populations: T-Tests and ANOVA / Chapter 7:Give Me One Good Reason Why: Bivariate Correlation and Regression / Chapter 8:Using Sample Slopes to Talk about Populations: Inference and Regression / Chapter 9: It’s All Relative: Dichotomies as Independent Variables in Regression / Chapter 10: Above and Beyond: The Logic of Controlling and the Power of Nested Regression Models / Chapter 11:Some Slopes Are Bigger Than Others: Calculating and Interpreting Beta Coefficients / Chapter 12:Different Slopes for Different Folks: Interaction Effects / Chapter 13:Explaining Dichotomous Outcomes: Logistic Regression / Chapter 14:Visualizing Causal Stories: Path Analysis / Chapter 15:Questioning the Greatness of Straightness: Nonlinear Relationships / Chapter 16: Problems and Prospects: Regression Diagnostics, Advanced Techniques, and Where to Go Now / Appendix A:Variables and Indexes from the American National Election Studies, the World Values Survey, and Three Surveys from the Pew Internet and American Life Project /Appendix B: Eighty-Six Articles That Use Statistics in Less than Scary Ways / Appendix C:Statistical Tables / Appendix D:Answers to Selected End-of-Chapter Exercises