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This new edition covers the contemporary statistical techniques that students will encounter in the world of social research at an introductory level. Recurrent examples using four timely topics - health, immigration, income inequality, and everyday harassment - help students understand how these techniques.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Life in a Data-Laden Age: Finding and Managing Datasets
Chapter 2. The Art of Visual Storytelling: Creating Accurate Tables and Graphs
Chapter 3. Summarizing Center and Diversity: Basic Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 4. Using Sample Crosstabs to Talk About Populations: The Chi-square Test
Chapter 5. Using a Sample Mean or Proportion to Talk About a Population: Confidence Intervals
Chapter 6. Using Multiple Sample Means to Talk About Populations: T–Tests and ANOVA
Chapter 7. Give me One Good Reason Why: Bivariate Correlation and Regression
Chapter 8. Using Sample Slopes to Talk About Populations: Inference and Regression
Chapter 9. It’s All Relative: Dichotomies as Independent Variables in Regression
Chapter 10. Above and Beyond: The Logic of Controlling and the Power of Nested Regression Models
Chapter 11. Some Slopes are Bigger than Others: Calculating and Interpreting Beta Coefficients
Chapter 12. Different Slopes for Different Folks: Interaction Effects
Chapter 13. Explaining Dichotomous Outcomes: Logistic Regression
Chapter 14. Visualizing Causal Stories: Path Analysis
Chapter 15. Questioning the Greatness of Straightness: Nonlinear Relationships
Chapter 16. Problems and Prospects: Regression Diagnostics, Advanced Techniques, and Where to Go Now
Appendix A: Variables and Indexes from the Datasets Used in the End-of-Chapter Exercises
Appendix B: 100 Articles That Use Statistics in Less than Scary Ways
Appendix C: Statistical Tables
Appendix D: Answers to Odd-Numbered End-of-Chapter Exercises
Bibliography
Glossary/Index
About the author
Thomas J. Linneman is Professor of Sociology and Faculty Director of Academic Advising at the College of William & Mary. The recipient of several teaching awards, he teaches statistics, social change, sexualities, and the pandemic. His research on teaching statistics recently appeared in the journal Teaching Sociology. After a student posted one of his teaching videos on TikTok and it went viral, a Buzzfeed list named him “Best Professor on the Planet.”
Summary
This new edition covers the contemporary statistical techniques that students will encounter in the world of social research at an introductory level. Recurrent examples using four timely topics – health, immigration, income inequality, and everyday harassment – help students understand how these techniques.
