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Healey, Joseph F., 1945-

Statistics : a tool for social research / Joseph F. Healey. - 5th ed. - Belmont, CA : Wadsworth Publ., c1999. - xviii, 540 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

• Descriptive statistics
• Inferential statistics
• Measures of Association
• Multivariate techniques
• Basic descriptive statistics percentages, ratios and rates, tables, charts and graphs
• Measures of central tendency
• Measures of dispersion
• The normal curve
• Introduction to inferential statistics sampling and the sampling distribution
• Estimation procedures
• Hypothesis testing the one sample case
• Hypothesis testing II the one sample case
• Hypothesis testing II the two sample case
• Hypothesis testing III the analysis of variance
• Hypothesis testing IV nonparametric tests for variables measured at the ordinal level
• Hypothesis testing V chi square
• Bivariate association introduction and basic concepts
• Association between variables measured at the nominal level
• Association between variables measured at the ordinal level
• Association between variables measured at the interval-ratio level
• Elaborating bivariate tables
• Partial correlation and multiple regression and correlation


ISBN: 0534552609

LCCN: 98020186

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social sciences--Statistical methods.

Dewey Class. No.: 519.5 / HEA