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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosenthal, James Aaron
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer Pub. Co., [2012], ©2012.
Subjects:
Social sciences > Statistical methods.
Social service > Statistical methods.
Social sciences > Research.
Statistics.
Physical Description:xvii, 485 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.