Social Statistics for a Diverse Society

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Pine Forge Press, 2006 - Broj stranica: 586
Written especially for undergraduate students taking their first course in social statistics, this highly accessible bestselling text has been thoroughly revised and updated with the latest General Social Survey data. This new Fourth Edition maintains the same informal, conversational writing style along with the many pedagogical features have led to the previous editions' widespread success. It also introduces new social issues, including more analysis of cultural diversity. In this Fourth Edition, the authors have introduced a strong global perspective by using real-life examples from the International Social Survey Programme that help expand the students' analytical focus beyond the United States.
 

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The What and the Why of Statistics
1
Frequency Distributions
27
Graphic Presentation
63
Time Series Charts
75
Measures of Central Tendency
97
The Mean
107
Measures of Variability
135
CrossTabulation
177
The Normal Distribution
315
Transforming Proportions or Percentages into Z Scores
328
Sampling and Sampling Distributions
343
Estimation
375
Testing Hypotheses
403
The ChiSquare Test
441
Analysis of Variance
469
Television and Education
568

Measures of Association for Nominal and Ordinal Variables
227
Regression and Correlation
261

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Chava Frankfort-Nachmias is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the coauthor of Research Methods in the Social Sciences (with David Nachmias), coeditor of Sappho in the Holy Land (with Erella Shadmi), and numerous publications on ethnicity and development, urban revitalization, science and gender, and women in Israel. She was the recipient of the University of Wisconsin System teaching improvement grant on integrating race, ethnicity, and gender into the social statistics and research methods curriculum.

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