Statistical Persuasion - How to Collect, Analyze, Present Data...accurately, Honestly,

Klappentext This text clearly and straightforwardly demonstrates how to collect, manage, analyze, and present data in real world applications in education, criminal justice and other fields in the social sciences. Zusammenfassung This text clearly and straightforwardly demonstrates how to collect! manage! analyze! and present data in real world applications in education! criminal justice and other fields in the social science Inhaltsverzeichnis PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. Introduction 2. Research Design and Data Collection 3. Measurement 4. Data Editing, Transformation, Index Construction, and Weights 5. Statistics as Description 6. Charts and Graphs 7. Percentages and Contingency Tables 8. Samples and Statistical Inference 9. Statistics as Group Differences 10. Statistics as Relationships 11. Regression Analysis 12. Detecting and Correcting Violations of Regression Assumptions 13. Time Series Analysis, Program Assessment, and Forecasting 14. Presenting Persuasive Statistical Analyses APPENDIX A: FROM WHENCE DO DATA COME? KEY STATISTICAL SITES FROM THE U.S. GOVERNMENT APPENDIX B: HOW TO SELECT THE RIGHT STATISTICS APPENDIX C: IN-CLASS QUESTIONNAIRE REFERENCES

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• Authors: Robert W. Pearson, Robert W. (University of Pennsylvania Pearson, Robert W. W. Pearson, PEARSON ROBERT W UNIVERSITY OF, Pearson Robert W.
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.04.2010
• EAN: 9781412974967
• ISBN: 978-1-4129-7496-7
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, Social research & statistics, Probability & statistics, Probability and statistics, Social research and statistics, statistics;Pearson