Basic Statistics for Social Research

ROBERT A. HANNEMAN is a professor of sociology at the University of California,Riverside.

AUGUSTINE J. KPOSOWA is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside.

MARK D. RIDDLE is the Director of Institutional Research at Antioch University Los Angeles.

Preface

Acknowledgements

The Authors

Part 1 Univariate Description

Chapter 1: Statistics and the Research Process

Chapter 2: Frequency Distribution

Chapter 3: Central Tendency

Chapter 4: Dispersion

Chapter 5: Distribution Shape

Part 2 Inference and Hypothesis Testing

Chapter 6: The Normal Distribution

Chapter 7: Basic Ideas of Statistical Inference

Chapter 8: Hypothesis Testing for One Sample

Chapter 9: Hypothesis Testing for Two Samples

Chapter 10: Multiple Group Tests for Proportions: Chi-square

Chapter 11: Multiple Sample Tests for Means: One-way ANOVA

Part 3 Association and Prediction

Chapter 12: Association with Categorical Variables

Chapter 13: Association with Interval/Ratio Variables

Chapter 14: Prediction for Interval/Ratio Outcomes

Chapter 15: Prediction for Categorical Outcomes

Appendices

Index

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