Statistics for social understanding [electronic resource] : with Stata and SPSS / Nancy Whitter (Smith College), Tina Wildhagen (Smith College), Howard J. Gold (Smith College).
This new introduction to statistics integrated with Stata offers an accessible overview for students in sociology, political science, criminal justice and other social sciences.--
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2020]
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| Variant Title: |
Statistics for Social Understanding: With Stata and SPSS |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- Getting to know your data : frequency distributions and visual representations of data -- Examining relationships between two variables : cross-tabulations -- Typical values in a group : measures of central tendency -- The diversity of values in a group : measures of variability -- Probability and the normal distribution -- From sample to population : sampling distributions and the central limit theorem -- Estimating a population parameter : confidence intervals -- Differences between samples and populations : one-sample hypothesis tests -- Comparing groups : two-sample hypothesis tests -- Testing mean differences among multiple groups : analysis of variance -- Testing the statistical significance of relationships in cross-tabulations : the chi-square test -- Ruling out competing explanations for relationships between variables : control variables and the logic of causality -- Describing linear relationships between variables : correlation and regression. | |
| 520 | |a This new introduction to statistics integrated with Stata offers an accessible overview for students in sociology, political science, criminal justice and other social sciences.-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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