Introduction to social statistics : the logic of statistical reasoning / Thomas Dietz and Linda Kalof.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dietz, Thomas
Other Authors: Kalof, Linda
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, [2009], ©2009.
Subjects:
Social sciences > Statistical methods.
Statistics.
Local Note:
MSU Stanley C. and Selma D. Hollander Faculty Book Collection.
Physical Description:xxxvii, 569 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • An introduction to quantitative analysis
  • Some basic concepts
  • Displaying data one variable at a time
  • Describing data
  • Plotting relationships and conditional distributions
  • Causation and models of causal effects
  • Probability
  • Sampling distributions and inference
  • Using sampling distributions : confidence intervals
  • Using sampling distributions : hypothesis tests
  • The subtle logic of analysis of variance
  • Goodness of fit and models of frequency tables
  • Bivariate regression and correlation
  • Basics of multiple regression.