Basic Statistics for Social Workers

Basic Statistics for Social Workers covers descriptive and inferential statistics at an introductory level. Using examples from social work, the text covers single-subject analysis, as well as multiple regression. The mathematics is presented in a simple user-friendly manner.

Mark A. Yarhouse is a licensed clinical psychologist in Virginia and Associate Professor of Psychology at Regent University in Virginia Beach Lori A. Burkett is a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia

Figures, Images, Equations, and Tables

iii

For the instructor

iv

Introduction

1

(4)

Definition of statistics

1

(1)

Three reasons to learn some statistics

1

(1)

Variables and Attributes

2

(2)

Practice Problems

4

(1)

Levels of Measurement

5

(4)

Nominal Level, Categorical Data

5

(1)

Ordinal Level Data

6

(1)

Continuous, Interval-Ratio Level Data

7

(1)

Practice Problems

8

(1)

Data Representation

9

(8)

Frequency Tables

9

(2)

Histograms

11

(1)

Percentiles

12

(3)

Practice Problems

15

(2)

Measures of Central Tendency

17

(6)

Mean

17

(1)

Median

18

(1)

Mode

19

(1)

Skewness

19

(3)

Practice Problems

22

(1)

Measures of Dispersion

23

(10)

Range

23

(1)

Variance

23

(1)

Standard Deviation

23

(5)

Z-Scores

28

(1)

Areas Under the curve

29

(2)

Practice Problems

31

(2)

P-Values

33

(14)

Standard Error of the Mean

33

(2)

Area Under the Curve and P-Values

35

(4)

Type I and Type II Errors

39

(2)

p-values

41

(1)

Confidence Intervals

42

(3)

Practice Problems

45

(2)

Measures of Association: Pearson, Spearman, and Point Bi-Serial Correlations

47

(14)

Causality, Dependence & Association

47

(10)

Spearman and Point Bi-serial Correlations

57

(2)

Practice Problems

59

(2)

Multiple Regression

61

(6)

Basics

61

(5)

Practice Problems

66

(1)

t-test and One-Way Analysis of Variance

67

(16)

Basics

67

(5)

Directional t-test

72

(2)

One-Way Analysis of Variance

74

(7)

Practice Problems

81

(2)

Chi-Square

83

(6)

Chi Square

83

(3)

Fisher's Exact

86

(1)

Phi

87

(1)

Practice Problems

88

(1)

Single System Analysis

89

(4)

Basics

67

(5)

Directional t-test

72

(2)

One-Way Analysis of Variance

74

(7)

Practice Problems

81

(12)

Intermediate Topics

93

(8)

Multi-way ANOVA

93

(1)

Factorial ANOVA

94

(3)

Analysis of Covariance (F-test)

97

(1)

Analysis of Covariance (regression)

98

(2)

Practice Problems

100

(1)

Answers to problems

101

(2)

Table A Area Under the Curve

103

(6)

Table B Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficients

109

(3)

Table C t-test

112

(1)

Table D Significance of F

113

(1)

Table E Chi-Square Probabilities

114

(1)

Table F Table of Random Numbers

115

(1)

Index

116

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