Statistics : a tool for social research / Joseph F. Healey.

Includes index.

Chapter 1 Introduction Part I Descriptive Statistics Chapter 2 Basic Descriptive Statistics: Percentages, Ratios and Rates, Tables, Charts, and Graphs Chapter 3 Measures of Central Tendency Chapter 4 Measures of Dispersion Chapter 5 The Normal Curve Part II Inferential Statistics Chapter 6 Introduction to Inferential Statistics: Sampling and the Sampling Distribution Chapter 7 Estimation Procedures Chapter 8 Hypothesis Testing I: The One-Sample Case Chapter 9 Hypothesis Testing II: The Two-Sample Case Chapter 10 Hypothesis Testing III: The Analysis of Variance Chapter 11 Hypothesis Testing IV: Nonparametric Tests for Variables Measured at the Ordinal Level Chapter 12 Hypothesis Testing V: Chi Square Part III Measures of Association Chapter 13 Bivariate Association: Introduction and Basic Concepts Chapter 14 Association Between Variables Measured at the Nominal Level Chapter 15 Association Between Variables Measured at the Ordinal Level Chapter 16 Association Between Variables Measured at the Interval-Ratio Level Part IV Multivariate Techniques Chapter 17 Elaborating Bivariate Tables Chapter 18 Partial Correlation and Multiple Regression and Correlation Appendix A Area Under the Normal Curve Appendix B Distribution of t Appendix C Distribution of Chi Square Appendix D Distribution of F Appendix E A Table of Random Numbers Appendix F Introduction to SPSS for Windows Appendix G Code Book for the General Social Survey, 1996 Appendix H Basic Mathematics Review Answers to Odd-Numbered Computational Problems Glossary Index