Social Statistics : Managing Data, Conducting Analyses, Presenting Results (Paperback, 5 ed)

1. Life in a Data-Laden Age: Finding and Managing Datasets
2. The Art of Visual Storytelling: Creating Accurate Tables and Graphs
3. Summarizing Center and Diversity: Basic Descriptive Statistics
4. Using Sample Crosstabs to Talk About Populations: The Chi-Square Test
5. Using a Sample Mean or Proportion to Talk About a Population: Confidence Intervals
6. Using Multiple Sample Means to Talk About Populations: t-Tests and ANOVA
7. Give Me One Good Reason Why: Bivariate Correlation and Regression
8. Using Sample Slopes to Talk About Populations: Inference and Regression
9. It’s All Relative: Dichotomies as Independent Variables in Regression
10. Above and Beyond: The Logic of Controlling and the Power of Nested Regression Models
11. Some Slopes Are Bigger Than Others: Calculating and Interpreting Beta Coefficients
12. Different Slopes for Different Folks: Interaction Effects
13. Explaining Dichotomous Outcomes: Logistic Regression
14. Visualizing Causal Stories: Path Analysis
15. Questioning the Greatness of Straightness: Nonlinear Relationships
16. Problems and Prospects: Regression Diagnostics, Advanced Techniques, and Where to Go Now