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| Chapters conclude with Summary, Key Terms, Symbols, Formulas, and Exercises and/or Problem Set | |
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| Preface | |
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| Social Statistics and Measurement: The Purpose of Social Statistics | |
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| What Is Statistics? | |
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| Measurement | |
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| Displaying Data | |
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| Frequencies and Frequency Distributions | |
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| Relative Frequencies | |
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| Using Tables for Display | |
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| Using Graphic Displays | |
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| Numerical Summaries of Data | |
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| Measures of Central Tendency | |
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| Measures of Variation | |
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| A Continuous Probability Distribution: The Normal Distribution | |
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| The Role of Probability | |
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| The Normal Probability Distribution | |
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| Skewness and Kurtosis | |
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| A Discrete Probability Distribution: The Binomial Distribution | |
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| Characteristics of the Binomial Probability Distribution | |
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| The Binomial Model and Its Application | |
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| Transforming Binomial Data to Continuous Form with Z Scores | |
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| The Basis of Statistical Inference | |
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| Random Sampling | |
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| Accuracy and Error in Sampling | |
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| The Logic of Statistical Inference | |
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| Point Estimates for Population Means | |
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| Confidence Intervals and Population Means | |
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| Confidence Limits and Sample Size | |
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| Confidence Limits and Proportions | |
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| Testing Hypotheses: One-Sample Tests | |
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| What Is a Hypothesis? | |
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| Hypotheses Testing: The Standard-Error-of-the-Mean Test | |
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| The Risk of Error | |
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| Student's t Test: One Sample | |
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| The Standard-Error-of-Proportions Test: One Sample | |
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| Chi-Square: A One-Sample Test for Nominal Data | |
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| Comparing Two Continuous Measures: Parametric Tests | |
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| Group Comparisons | |
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| Two Independent Samples for Interval Measures | |
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| Two Independent Samples with Dichotomous Measures | |
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| Comparing Two Dependent Samples with Interval Measures | |
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| Comparing Two Discrete Measures: Nonparametric Tests | |
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| Comparing Two Independent Samples: Ordinal Measures | |
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| Comparing Two Dependent Samples: Ordinal Measures | |
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| Comparing Two Independent Samples: Nominal Measures | |
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| Comparing Two Dependent Samples: Nominal Measures | |
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| Comparing More Than Two Populations: Analysis of Variance | |
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| Parametric ANOVA Models | |
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| Nonparametric ANOVA | |
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| Linear Regression and Correlation | |
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| Regression Analysis | |
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| Correlation | |
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| The Association of Discrete Data | |
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| The Concept of Association | |
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| The Association of Ordinal Measures | |
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| The Association of Nominal Measures | |
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| Basic Mathematical Procedures | |
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| Statistical Tables | |
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| Selected Answers to Exercises | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |