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Adopted at a wide range of schools across the country, from Eastern Kentucky University, to the University of Michigan, to Bismarck State College, to Northwestern University!Features of this new edition include the following...*Consistently throughout the book, discussion of statistical techniques and concepts has been edited and streamlined, and the overall presentation is tighter. *The majority of GSS94 chapter examples have been updated to GSS96. All Census data has been updated to 1998 sources.*Chapters 13 and 14 have been revised and combined into one chapter. The concept of critical value of t has been eliminated, as well as one sample Z-test. Assessment of the probability of obtained t-test has been introduced, and the 6 step model has been modified to a 5 step model.*Additional end of chapter exercises have been added, on topics such as international data, criminal justice, and the elderly.*New and revised SPSS end of chapter exercises have been modified to fit GSS96 datasets.*Two modules or subsets have been created in the GSS96 Datasets for SPSS Exercises -- one for family/women′s issues; the other for diversity/race issues. "Not only shows how integrating issues of diversity can be done in a way that furthers the traditional objectives of statistics courses, but also in a way that makes science a warmer classroom and career climate for women and students of color. This book is pathbreaking." Kate Berheide, Skidmore College"The exercises are excellent; I consider them a particular strength of the text. Plus the use of real examples gives relevancy and meaning to the concepts." Holly S. Gimpel, Saint Joseph′s College

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• The What and the Why of Statistics
• Organization of Information
• Frequency Distributions
• Graphic Presentation
• Measures of Central Tendency
• Measures of Variability
• Relationships between Two Variables
• Cross-Tabulation
• Measures of Association for Nominal and Ordinal Variables
• Bivariate Regression and Correlation
• Organization of Information and Measurement of Relationships
• A Review of Descriptive Data Analysis
• The Normal Distribution
• Sampling and Sampling Distributions
• Estimation
• Testing Hypotheses about Two Samples
• The Chi-Square Test
• Reviewing Inferential Statistics

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Chava Frankfort-Nachmias is an Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the coauthor of Research Methods in the Social Sciences (with David Nachmias), coeditor of Sappho in the Holy Land(with Erella Shadmi), and numerous publications on ethnicity and development, urban revitalization, science and gender, and women in Israel. She was the recipient of the University of Wisconsin System teaching improvement grant on integrating race, ethnicity, and gender into the social statistics and research methods curriculum.

Anna Leon-Guerrero is Professor of Sociology at Pacific Lutheran University in Washington. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of California-Los Angeles. She was the recipient of the university's Faculty Excellence Award and the K. T. Tang Award for Excellence. She is the author of and Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action, 7th Edition, and co-author (with Chava Frankfort-Nachmias and Georgiann Davis) of Social Statistics for a Diverse Society, 10th Edition (both with Sage).