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Written especially for undergraduate students taking their first course in social statistics, this highly accessible bestselling text has been thoroughly revised and updated with the latest General Social Survey data. The new Fourth Edition maintains the same informal, conversational writing style along with the many pedagogical features have led to the previous editions′ widespread success. It also introduces new social issues, including more analysis of cultural diversity. The text includes resources designed to support effective teaching: illustrations showing how statistical concepts are used to interpret social issues, guides for reading and interpreting the research literature, SPSS demonstrations, and a rich variety of exercises. The authors have introduced a strong global perspective by using real-life examples from the International Social Survey Programme that help expand the students′ analytical focus beyond the United States.

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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

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

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).