Statistics and data interpretation for social work / James A. Rosenthal.

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Main Author: Rosenthal, James Aaron
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer Pub. Co., [2012], ©2012.
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Physical Description:xvii, 485 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Pt. I: Introduction and descriptive statistics. Introduction and overview -- Data presentation -- Central tendency -- Measures of variability -- Shape of distribution -- The concept of relationship and relationship between categorical variables -- The odds ratio and other measures for categorical variables -- Correlation and regression -- Standardized mean difference -- Research design and causality -- Controlling for confounding variables -- Pt. II: Inferential statistics and data interpretation. An introduction to inferential statistics -- Confidence intervals for means and proportions -- The logic of statistical significance tests -- The large sample test of the mean and new concepts -- Statistical power and selected topics -- The t distribution and one-sample procedures for means -- Independent samples t test and dependent samples t test -- One-sample tests of proportions -- The chi-square test of independence -- Analysis of variance -- More significance tests and reasoning with test results -- An overview of selected multivariate procedures -- Generalizability, importance, and a data interpretation model. 
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