Using statistics in social research a concise approach

"This book covers applied statistics for the social sciences with upper-level undergraduate students in mind. The chapters are based on lecture notes from an introductory statistics course the author has taught for a number of years. The book integrates statistics into the research process, wit...

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Main Author: Lynch, Scott M. (Scott Michael) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Overview of the research process
  • Data and its acquisition
  • Summarizing data with descriptive statistics
  • Probability theory
  • Statistical inference
  • Statistical approaches for nomimal data: Chi-square tests
  • Comparing means across multiple groups: analysis of variance (ANOVA)
  • Correlation and simple regression
  • Introduction to multiple regression
  • Presenting results of statistical analysis