ESSENTIAL STATISTICS FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH (Revised and Updated – Second Edition)

This revised and updated edition of Essential Statistics for Social Research is designed as the primary textbook for an introductory course in statistics in the social sciences. It can also be used as a supplementary text for courses in research methods. No sophisticated mathematical background on the part of students is assumed.
The first edition of this book was used by more than 10,000 students at colleges and universities. This long-awaited revised edition retains the two key features students and their teachers praised most highly in the first edition: clarity of presentation and thorough coverage of essential statistics for the beginning student. The revision brings the material up to date, featuring examples that demonstrate the use of computers to analyze data. The chapters on testing the difference between means and on measuring association between interval-level variables have been considerably expanded, as has the discussion of handling three or more variables. The author leads students beyond a mere understanding of research methods in social sciences, enabling them to effectively make use of statistical methods of analysis.

In this book…

• Introduction
• Organization and Presentation of Data
• Descriptive Measures: Centrality
• Measures of Dispersion
• Bases of Statistical Inference, I:
Probability and the Logic of Hypothesis Testing
• Bases of Statistical Inference, II:
Sampling and Estimation
• Testing for the Difference Between Means
• Analysis of Variance
• Measuring the Association Between Two Nominal Variables
• Measuring the Association Between Two Ordinal Variables
• Measuring the Association Between Two Interval Variables
• Multivariate Analysis: Three or More Variables