Finally, an introductory statistics text that provides broad coverage, limited theory, clear explanations, plenty of practice opportunities, and examples that engage today′s students!
Using General Social Survey data from 1980 and 2010, this textbook asks students to consider how young adults have changed over the last 30 years. Students learn to select an appropriate data analysis technique, carry out the analysis, and draw conclusions.
Tabella dei contenuti
About the Author
Preface
Part 1. Getting Started
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Data Sets
Part 2. Descriptive Statistics: Answering Questions About Your Data
Chapter 3. Frequency Tables and Univariate Charts
Chapter 4. Central Tendency and Dispersion
Chapter 5. Creating New Variables
Chapter 6. Comparing Group Means
Chapter 7. Crosstab Tables
Chapter 8. Nominal and Ordinal Measures of Association
Chapter 9. Pearson′s Correlation and Bivariate Regression
Chapter 10. Multiple Regression
Part 3. Inferential Statistics: Answering Questions About Populations
Chapter 11. Sampling Distributions and Normal Distributions
Chapter 12. Hypothesis Testing and One-Sample t Tests
Chapter 13. Paired- and Independent-Samples t Tests
Chapter 14. Analysis of Variance
Chapter 15. Chi-Square
Chapter 16. Hypothesis Testing With Measures of Association and Regression
Glossary
Index
Circa l’autore
Robert Szafran is Regents Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas. A passionate believer in the ability of all college students to master and enjoy basic statistical analysis, he teaches courses in research methods and data analysis and also demography and labor force analysis. He has received both College and University Excellence in Teaching Awards. Past director of his university’s First-Year Seminar Program and its Inter-disciplinary Linked Courses Program, he has also served as department chair. He received his Ph D in Sociology at The University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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