Answering Questions With Statistics Paperback by Robert F. Szafran

Product details:

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781412991322
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1412991322
Author: Robert Szafran

Finally, an introductory statistics text that provides broad coverage, limited theory, clear explanations, plenty of practice opportunities, and examples that engage today′s students! Using General Social Survey data from 1980 and 2010, Robert Szafran asks students to consider how young adults have changed over the last 30 years. Students learn to select an appropriate data analysis technique, carry out the analysis, and draw appropriate conclusions. Changes in subjective beliefs (such as freedom of speech and abortion) and objective characteristics (like years of schooling and marital status) are examined. In answering the question about how young adults have changed, students acquire a broad knowledge of basic statistics and extensive experience with SPSS.

Table contents:

Part 1. Getting Started
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Data Sets
Part 2. Descriptive Statistics: Answering Questions About Your Data
Chapter 3. Frequency Tables and Univariate Charts
Chapter 4. Central Tendency and Dispersion
Chapter 5. Creating New Variables
Chapter 6. Comparing Group Means
Chapter 7. Crosstab Tables
Chapter 8. Nominal and Ordinal Measures of Association
Chapter 9. Pearson’s Correlation and Bivariate Regression
Chapter 10. Multiple Regression
Part 3. Inferential Statistics: Answering Questions About Populations
Chapter 11. Sampling Distributions and Normal Distributions
Chapter 12. Hypothesis Testing and One-Sample t Tests
Chapter 13. Paired- and Independent-Samples t Tests
Chapter 14. Analysis of Variance
Chapter 15. Chi-Square
Chapter 16. Hypothesis Testing With Measures of Association and Regression
Glossary
Index