TY - BOOK AU - Foster,Liam AU - Diamond,Ian AU - Jefferies,Julie TI - Beginning statistics: an introduction for social scientists SN - 9781446280690 AV - HA 29 FOS PY - 2015/// CY - Los Angeles : PB - Sage Publications Ltd. KW - Social sciences - statistical methods KW - Statistics - methodology KW - Social sciences KW - Statistics N1 - Previous edition: 2001. Includes index; Are statistics relevant to real life? -- Data and table manners -- Graphs and charts -- Averages and percentiles -- Spreads -- Transforming data -- The normal distribution -- From samples to populations -- Getting confident -- Fun with proportions -- How to decide how to decide -- More tricky decisions -- Correlation and regression -- Analysing tables with categorical data -- Conclusion -- Statistical tables -- Answers to practice questions -- Algebra and mathematical notation explained ER -