01635cam a22002537a 4500 0495601438 9780495601432 9780495834281 (pbk.) 0495834289 (pbk.) HA 29 HEA Healey, Joseph F. The essentials of statistics : a tool for social research / 2nd ed. Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, c2010. xix, 440 pages : Illustrations ; Includes index. Introduction -- Basic descriptive statistics : percentages, ratios and rates, frequency distributions -- Charts and graphs -- Measures of central tendency -- Measures of dispersion -- The normal curve -- Introduction to inferential statistics, the sampling distribution, and estimation -- Hypothesis testing I : the one-sample case -- Hypothesis testing II : the two-sample case -- Hypothesis testing III : the analysis of variance -- Hypothesis testing IV : chi square -- Introduction to bivariate association and measures of association for variables measured at the nominal level -- Association between variables measured at the ordinal level -- Association between variables measured at the interval-ratio level -- Partial correlation and multiple regression and correlation. Social sciences - statistical methods. Statistics. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1212/2008940409-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1212/2008940409-t.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1303/2008940409-b.html BK lcc 0 0 lcc 0 GIMPA GIMPA REF 2015-05-07 Purchase 0 HA 29 HEA 64951 2023-01-23 2023-01-23 BK 2553 2553