Basic statistics for social workers / Robert A. Schneider.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schneider, Robert A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social service--Statistical methods.

Social service.

Physical Description:

118 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2003]

Summary:

Basic Statistics for Social Workers covers descriptive and inferential statistics at an introductory level. Using examples from social work, the text covers single-subject analysis, as well as multiple regression. The mathematics is presented in a simple user-friendly manner.

Contents:

2. Three reasons to learn some statistics 1

3. Variables and Attributes 2

Chapter 2 Levels of Measurement 5

1. Nominal Level, Categorical Data 5

2. Ordinal Level Data 6

3. Continuous, Interval-Ratio Level Data 7

Chapter 3 Data Representation 9

1. Frequency Tables 9

2. Histograms 11

3. Percentiles 12

Chapter 4 Measures of Central Tendency 17

1. Mean 17

2. Median 18

3. Mode 19

4. Skewness 19

Chapter 5 Measures of Dispersion 23

1. Range 23

2. Variance 23

3. Standard Deviation 23

4. Z-Scores 28

5. Areas Under the curve 29

Chapter 6 P-Values 33

1. Standard Error of the Mean 33

2. Area Under the Curve and P-Values 35

3. Type I and Type II Errors 39

4. @p-values 41

5. Confidence Intervals 42

Chapter 7 Measures of Association: Pearson, Spearman, and Point Bi-Serial 47

Correlations

1. Causality, Dependence & Association 47

2. Spearman and Point Bi-serial Correlations 57

Chapter 8 Multiple Regression 61

Chapter 9 T-test and One-Way Analysis of Variance 67

2. Directional t-test 72

3. One-Way Analysis of Variance 74

Chapter 10 Chi-Square 83

1. Chi Square 83

2. Fisher's Exact 86

3. Phi 87

Chapter 11 Single System Analysis 89

Chapter 12 Intermediate Topics 93

1. Multi-way ANOVA 93

2. Factorial ANOVA 94

3. Analysis of Covariance (F-test) 97

4. Analysis of Covariance (regression) 98

Table A Area Under the Curve 103

Table B Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficients 109

Table C @t-test 112

Table D Significance of F 113

Table E Chi-Square Probabilities 114

Table F Table of Random Numbers 115.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0761826068

OCLC:

52430917