Elementary Statistics in Social Research, Updated Edition, 12th edition

Published by Pearson (July 14, 2021) © 2014

  • Jack A. Levin Northeastern University
  • James Alan Fox Northeastern University
  • David R. Forde University of North Texas at Dallas

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Elementary Statistics in Social Research
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1. Why the Social Researcher Uses Statistics
2. Organizing the Data
3. Measures of Central Tendency
4. Measures of Variability
5. Probability and the Normal Curve
6. Samples and Populations
7. Testing Differences between Means
8. Analysis of Variance
9. Nonparametric Tests of Significance
10. Correlation
11. Regression Analysis
12. Nonparametric Measures of Correlation
13. Choosing Statistical Procedures for Research Problems

Appendix A: The Social Research Process In Practice
Appendix B: Using SPSS and the General Social Survey
Appendix C: Tables
Appendix D: List of Formulas
Appendix E: A Review of Some Fundamentals of Mathematics

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