TY - BOOK AU - Healey,Joseph F. TI - Statistics: a tool for social research SN - 0534552609 AV - HA29 .H39 1999 PY - 1999///] CY - Belmont, CA PB - Wadsworth Publ. KW - Social sciences KW - Statistical methods N1 - 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 ER -