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Answering Questions With Statistics

December 2011 | 456 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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By making introductory statistics interesting through comparing data on today's student generation with their parents' generation, and asking students to consider how people change as they grow older, the book uses data on subjective beliefs (such as freedom of speech and abortion) as well objective characteristics (years of schooling, marital status) to teach basic statistics using SPSS.
 
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 is a very student-friendly text. The author has succeeded in writing a basic statistics text that is inviting rather than off-putting.”

Michael J. Handel
Northeastern University

“Accessible and approachable, this book makes a conscious effort to appeal to contemporary social science students who may not have a strong affinity for mathematics.”

Meena Chary
University of South Florida

“I truly value the ease with which the author conveys oftentimes confusing and scary information to students.”

Noelle E. Fearn
Saint Louis University

“Those looking for a full integration of the theory of statistics and its application (through SPSS) will find no better book that this one.”

Steven G. Prus
Carleton University

“The text proceeds in a logical order, building upon what was covered earlier. This is one of its strong suits: it presents the topics in a logical, practical order. It also covers the necessary statistics.”

Charles N. Coleman
University of New Haven

far too simplistic and too much emphasis on SPSS

Dr Craig McBride
Interdis Arts & Sciences Prog, Univ Of Washington-Tacoma
February 21, 2014
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Still under review

Dr Mark Malisa
School Of Education, College of St Rose
August 22, 2013
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Ordered for Library. Solid book, but not the exact fit that I was looking for.

Dr John Hedgcock
GSTILE, Monterey Institute of International Studies
June 29, 2013
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Not exactly what I needed. It is a good book

Dr Marie Leiner
Psychiatry Dept, Texas Technology University Health Science - El Paso
June 4, 2013
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This book explains in laymen manner about the application of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics in social science research. Excellent for those who want an instant knowledge about statistics.

Dr Mohd Ali Samsudin
School of Educational Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia
May 23, 2013
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