Social Statistics for a Diverse Society introduces students to social statistics and their importance in the workplace, in the media, and in being able to conduct or interpret research. This bestselling book integrates statistical techniques with a wide range of social issues related to the dynamic interplay of race, class, gender, and other social variables: students become proficient in statistical techniques while learning about social differences and inequality through substantive examples and real-world data. The authors use straightforward language to explain statistical concepts and emphasize intuition, logic, and common sense over rote memorization and derivation of formulas. The Tenth Edition includes fresh topical examples and exercises, as well as new General Social Survey datasets with step-by-step SPSS and Excel video demonstrations.
Table of Content
Chapter 1: The What and the Why of Statistics
Chapter 2: The Organization and Graphic Presentation of Data
Chapter 3: Measures of Central Tendency
Chapter 4: Measures of Variability
Chapter 5: The Normal Distribution
Chapter 6: Sampling and Sampling Distributions
Chapter 7: Estimation
Chapter 8: Testing Hypotheses
Chapter 9: Bivariate Tables
Chapter 10: The Chi-Square Test and Measures of Association
Chapter 11: Analysis of Variance
Chapter 12: Regression and Correlation
About the author
Georgiann Davis is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. An award-winning instructor, researcher, and scholar-activist, she received her Ph D in sociology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis.
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