The Stories Behind Social Statistics: Data Analysis, Interpretation, and Communication

by Ezra Temko

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This text presents introductory social statistics concepts and techniques and how to use SPSS software.

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Publisher
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Subjects
Social Sciences
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Data, Datasets, SPSS, and Frequency Distribution Tables
  7. 2: Levels of Measurement; Five Point Summaries
  8. 3: More Measures of Central Tendency and Spread- Mean, Standard Deviation, Z-scores
  9. 4: Histograms, Normal Distributions, and the Central Limit Theorem
  10. 5: Confidence Intervals
  11. 6: Comparing Confidence Intervals
  12. 7: Hypothesis Tests, T-test, & ANOVA
  13. 8: Crosstabs and Chi-square
  14. 8.1: Crosstabs for Research Methods
  15. 9: Elaborated Crosstabs
  16. 10: Chapter 10. Scatterplots and Correlation
  17. 11: Regression Equations
  18. 12: Linear Regression, continued
  19. 13: Linear Regression with Reference Group Set Independent Variables
  20. 14: Multivariate Linear Regression
  21. 15: Interactions
  22. 16: Appendix- Resources
  23. Back Matter
  24. Index
  25. Glossary
  26. Detailed Licensing