Description
Book Synopsis`This book is highly recommended for libraries and departments to adopt. If I had to teach a statistics class for sociology students this would be a book I would surely choose. The book achieves two very important goals: it teaches students a software package and trains them in the statistical analysis of sociological data' -
Journal of Applied StatisticsThis fully revised, expanded and updated Second Edition of the best-selling textbook by Jane Fielding and Nigel Gilbert provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide to quantitative data analysis. Designed to help take the fear out of the use of numbers in social research, this textbook introduces students to statistics as a powerful means of revealing patterns in human behaviour.
The textbook covers everything typically included in an introductory course on social statistics for students in the social sciences and the authors have taken the opportunity of this Second Edition to b
Table of Contents
Numbers, Data and Analysis Using Computers in Statistics Univariate Statistics Graphics for Display Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion Graphics for Analysis The Normal Curve Correlation and Regression Bivariate Analysis Categorical Data Tables Sampling and Inference Testing Hypotheses Modelling Data
