Healy, Joseph F.

Statistics: a tool for social research. / Joseph F. Healy - Toronto: Nelson Education Ltd, 2010. - xxiv, 586p. : ills; 24cm.

Includes index.

Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Descriptive statistics: Chapter 2: Basic descriptive statistics: Percentages, ratios and rates, tables, charts and graphs -- Chapter 3: Measures of central tendency -- Chapter 4: Measure of Dispersion -- Chapter 5: The normal curve -- Part II: Inferential statistics: Chapter 6: Introduction to inferential statistics: Sampling and the sampling distribution -- Chapter 7: Estimation procedures -- Chapter 8: Hypothesis testing I: The One-Sample case -- Chapter 9: Hypothesis testing II: The two-sample case -- Chapter 10: Hypothesis testing III: The analysis of variance -- Chapter 11: Hypothesis testing IV: Chi square -- Part III: Bivariate measures of association: Chapter 12: Bivariate association: Introduction and basic concepts -- Chapter 13: Association between variable measured at the nominal level -- Chapter 14: Association between variables measured at the ordinal level -- Chapter 15: Association between variables measured at the interval-ratio level -- Part IV: Multivariate techniques: Chapter 16: Elaborating bivariate tables -- Chapter 17: Partial correlation and multiple regression and correlation.

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