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    <subTitle>a tool for social research</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Healey, Joseph F.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Wadsworth/Cengage Learning</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2010</dateIssued>
    <edition>2nd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xix, 440 pages : Illustrations ;</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>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.</tableOfContents>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
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    <topic>Social sciences - statistical methods</topic>
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    <topic>Statistics</topic>
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