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Social Statistics for a Diverse Society

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ISBN-10: 1412992532

ISBN-13: 9781412992534

Edition: 6th 2011

Authors: Chava Frankfort-Nachmias, Anna Y. Leon-Guerrero

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List price: $115.00
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/24/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 600
Size: 7.37" wide x 9.13" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Chava Frankfort-Nachmias is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the coauthor of Research Methods in the Social Sciences (with David Nachmias),nbsp;coeditor of Sappho in the Holy Land (with Erella Shadmi) and numerous publications on ethnicitynbsp;and development, urban revitalization, science and gender, and women in Israel. She was thenbsp;recipient of the University of Wisconsin System teaching improvement grant on integrating race,nbsp;ethnicity, and gender into the social statistics and research methods curriculum. She is also thenbsp;coauthor (with Anna Leon-Guerrero) of Social Statistics for a Diverse Society .

Anna Leon-Guerrero is a Professor of Sociology at Pacific Lutheran University in Washington. Shenbsp;received her PhD in sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She teaches coursesnbsp;in statistics, social theory, and social problems. Her areas of research and publications include familynbsp;business, social welfare policy, and social service program evaluation. She is also the author ofnbsp; Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action .

The What and the Why of Statistics
Organization of Information
Graphic Presentation
Measures of Central Tendency
Measures of Variability
The Normal Distribution
Sampling and Sampling Distributions
Estimation
Testing Hypotheses
Relationships Between Two Variables: Cross-Tabulation
The Chi-Square Test
Measures of Association for Nominal and Ordinal Variables
Regression and Correlation
Analysis of Variance