Statistics for social understanding : with Stata and SPSS /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Whittier, Nancy, 1966- (Author), Wildhagen, Tina, 1980- (Author), Gold, Howard J., 1958- (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2020]
Subjects:	Stata. Statistics. Social sciences > Statistical methods. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Getting to know your data : frequency distributions and visual representations of data
Examining relationships between two variables : cross-tabulations
Typical values in a group : measures of central tendency
The diversity of values in a group : measures of variability
Probability and the normal distribution
From sample to population : sampling distributions and the central limit theorem
Estimating a population parameter : confidence intervals
Differences between samples and populations : one-sample hypothesis tests
Comparing groups : two-sample hypothesis tests
Testing mean differences among multiple groups : analysis of variance
Testing the statistical significance of relationships in cross-tabulations : the chi-square test
Ruling out competing explanations for relationships between variables : control variables and the logic of causality
Describing linear relationships between variables : correlation and regression.