Social Statistics for a Diverse Society
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Today's students live in a world characterized by a growing diversity and richness of social differences. In the seventh edition of this popular text book, authors Chava Frankfort-Nachmias and Anna Leon-Guerrero continue to help students learn statistics through real research examples related to the dynamic interplay of race, class, gender, and other social variables. Focusing on the constant intersections between local and global social concerns and methods of inquiry and investigation, this new edition continues to emphasize intuition and common sense while demonstrating the link between the practice of statistics and important social issues. In addition, guides for reading and interpreting the research literature help students understand key statistical concepts, while SPSS demonstrations and a rich variety of exercises help them hone their problem-solving skills.
The What and the Why of Statistics
Organization of Information: Frequency Distributions
Graphic Presentation
Measures of Central Tendency
Measures of Variability
The Normal Distribution
Sampling and Sampling Distributions
Estimation
Testing Hypotheses
Bivariate Tables
The Chi-Square Test and Measures of Association
Analysis of Variance
Regression and Correlation
Data Sets and Codebooks
The GSS, HINTS, MTF and GLOBAL data sets and codebooks are to be used to answer the SPSS exercises at the end of each chapter in the text.