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Answering Questions With Statistics



October 2011 | 456 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Finally, an introductory statistics text that provides broad coverage, limited theory, clear explanations, plenty of practice opportunities, and examples that engage today's students!

Using General Social Survey data from 1980 and 2010, this textbook asks students to consider how young adults have changed over the last 30 years. Students learn to select an appropriate data analysis technique, carry out the analysis, and draw conclusions.


 
About the Author
 
Preface
 
Part 1. Getting Started
 
Chapter 1. Introduction
 
Chapter 2. Data Sets
 
Part 2. Descriptive Statistics: Answering Questions About Your Data
 
Chapter 3. Frequency Tables and Univariate Charts
 
Chapter 4. Central Tendency and Dispersion
 
Chapter 5. Creating New Variables
 
Chapter 6. Comparing Group Means
 
Chapter 7. Crosstab Tables
 
Chapter 8. Nominal and Ordinal Measures of Association
 
Chapter 9. Pearson's Correlation and Bivariate Regression
 
Chapter 10. Multiple Regression
 
Part 3. Inferential Statistics: Answering Questions About Populations
 
Chapter 11. Sampling Distributions and Normal Distributions
 
Chapter 12. Hypothesis Testing and One-Sample t Tests
 
Chapter 13. Paired- and Independent-Samples t Tests
 
Chapter 14. Analysis of Variance
 
Chapter 15. Chi-Square
 
Chapter 16. Hypothesis Testing With Measures of Association and Regression
 
Glossary
 
Index

This text makes a boring and in some cases a scary subject more accessable through this basic but clear understandable statistics.

Mr David Corry-Bass
CCLD / H&SC , South Leicestershire College
May 28, 2012

I am looking for a book with a student version of SPSS

Dr David Gilliam
Psychology Dept, University of Northern Colorado
January 31, 2012

I liked the step-by-step instructions on how to use SPSS and the clear writing/descriptions included in the text.

Ms Lisa Bryant
Political Science Dept, University of New Mexico
January 10, 2012
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Key features

Key Features

  • Uses an engaging research question to tie chapters together and motivate students to work through end-of-chapter practice problems
  • Offers broad coverage of statistics with minimal statistical theory, helping students understand the statistics in social science literature
  • Fully integrates SPSS into the text and practice problems, with step-by-step explanations and plentiful screenshots
  • Covers the essential concepts from research methods that are critical for learning data analysis
  • Provides a simple four-step procedure for hypothesis testing and facilitates learning by repetition throughout the chapters

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