Introducing Social Statistics

Originally published in 1982, this book describes those basic ideas and techniques of statistics which should be known to every social scientist. The explanations are given in careful detail at a level of mathematical sophistication which will be readily attainable by students meeting statistical methods for the first time.

List of contents

Preface. 1. Statistics and the Social Sciences 2. Frequency Distributions, Graphic Representation and Measures of Central Tendency 3. Measures of Variation and the Standard Normal Distribution 4. Probability 5. Sampling and Estimation 6. Hypothesis Testing with Single Samples 7. Statistical Inference with Two Samples 8. An Introduction to Analysis Variance 9. The Chi-Square Test and Contingency Problems with Nominal Scales 10. Regression and Correlation 11. Sources of Statistics. References. Appendix: Statistical Tables. Answers to Exercises. Index.

About the author

Richard Startup and Elwyn T. Whittaker

Summary

Originally published in 1982, this book describes those basic ideas and techniques of statistics which should be known to every social scientist. The explanations are given in careful detail at a level of mathematical sophistication which will be readily attainable by students meeting statistical methods for the first time.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Startup, Richard Whittaker Startup, Elwyn T Whittaker, Elwyn T. Whittaker
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781032081182
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3208118-2
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Studies in Sociology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries