Social Statistics Managing Data, Conducting Analyses, Presenting Results

Name: Social Statistics Managing Data, Conducting Analyses, Presenting Results
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ISBN: 9780415661478

ISBN-10: 0415661471

ISBN-13: 9780415661478

Edition: 2nd 2014 (Revised)

Authors: Thomas J. Linneman

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Many fundamentally important decisions about our social life are a function of how well we understand and analyze DATA. This sounds so obvious but it is so misunderstood. Social statisticians struggle with this problem in their teaching constantly. This book and its approach is the ally and support of all instructors who want to accomplish this hugely important teaching goal. This innovative text for undergraduate social statistics courses is, (as one satisfied instructor put it), a "breath of fresh air." It departs from convention by not covering some techniques and topics that have been in social stat textbooks for 30 years, but that are no longer used by social scientists today. It also…

Book details

List price: $88.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 3/26/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.948
Language: English




Life in a Data-Laden Age: Finding and Managing Datasets



The Art of Visual Storytelling: Creating Accurate Tables and Graphs



Summarizing Center and Diversity: Basic Descriptive Statistics



Using Sample Crosstabs to Talk about Populations: The Chi-Square Test



Using a Sample Mean or Proportion to Talk about a Population:Confidence Intervals



Using Multiple Sample Means to Talk about Populations: T-Tests and ANOVA



Give Me One Good Reason Why: Bivariate Correlation and Regression



Using Sample Slopes to Talk about Populations: Inference and Regression



It's All Relative: Dichotomies as Independent Variables in Regression



Above and Beyond: The Logic of Controlling and the Power of Nested Regression Models



Some Slopes Are Bigger Than Others: Calculating and Interpreting Beta Coefficients



Different Slopes for Different Folks: Interaction Effects



Explaining Dichotomous Outcomes: Logistic Regression



Visualizing Causal Stories: Path Analysis



Questioning the Greatness of Straightness: Nonlinear Relationships



Problems and Prospects: Regression Diagnostics, Advanced Techniques, and Where to Go Now



Variables and Indexes from the American National Election Studies, the World Values Survey, and Three Surveys from the Pew Internet and American Life Project



Eighty-Six Articles That Use Statistics in Less than Scary Ways



Statistical Tables



Answers to Selected End-of-Chapter Exercises