Just Plain Data Analysis - Finding, Presenting, and Interpreting Social Science Data

Informationen zum Autor Gary M. Klass Klappentext Just Plain Data Analysis is designed to teach students statistical literacy skills that they can use to evaluate and construct arguments about public affairs issues grounded in numerical evidence. With a new chapter on statistical fallacies and updates throughout the text, the new edition teaches students how to find, interpret, and present commonly used social indicators in an even clearer and more practical way. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Chapter 1: Measuring Political, Social and Economic Conditions Chapter 2: Measuring Racial and Ethnic Inequality Chapter 3: Statistical Fallacies, Paradoxes and Threats to Validity Chapter 4: Examining a Relationship: New York City Crime Rates Chapter 5: Tabulating the Data and Writing about the Numbers Chapter 6: The Graphical Display of Data Chapter 7: Voting and Elections Chapter 8: Measuring Educational Achievement Chapter 9: Measuring Poverty and Inequality

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gary M. Klass, Klass Gary M.
• Verlag: Rowman and Littlefield
• Sprache: Englisch
• Altersempfehlung: 18 bis 22 Jahre
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 13.04.2012
• EAN: 9781442215078
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-1507-8
• Seiten: 202
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Informatik, EDV > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Lexika, Nachschlagewerke > Lexika, Enzyklopädien; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, Political science & theory, Social research & statistics, Political science and theory, Probability & statistics, Probability and statistics, Social research and statistics, Data analysis: general, Data science and analysis: general