This text helps build students' confidence and ability in doing statistical analysis, by slowly moving from concepts that require little computational work to those that require more.
A comprehensive guide to the practical applications of statistics in social sciences This book brings out the relevance of statistical tools and methods in social sciences.
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Each chapter contains instructive features to aid students in understanding and mastering the various statistical approaches presented in the book, including: Learning objectives Check quizzes after many sections and an answer key at the ...
5.6.1: Weighted Mean The weighted mean is defined as follows (Kish 1965; Lee & Forthofer 2006; SAS Institute, 2008a: 6487; StataCorp 2009d: 1024):13 (5.3) where n is the sample size, i represents each individual case, Y i are the values ...
Features new to this edition include: NEW chapter on Logistic Regression (Ch. 11) that helps readers understand and use this very flexible and widely used procedure NEW chapter on Multivariate Multilevel Modeling (Ch. 14) that helps readers ...
This edition also has an appendix explaining how to apply SPSS and SAS to conduct the methods of each chapter and a website giving links to information about other software.
They include Jill Dolan, Chris Eisgruber, Dave Lee, Nolan McCarty, Debbie Prentice, and Val Smith. ... I also thank Neal Beck, Andy Hall, Ryan Moore, and Marc Ratkovic for their comments on earlier versions of the manuscript.
Featuring accessible writing and well-integrated research examples, the book gives students a greater understanding of how research studies are conceived, conducted, and communicated.
People are bombarded with statistical data every day, but not many have had training in how to interpret or analyze this information. Kurtz's accessible writing style provides...