Social statistics : managing data, conducting analyses, presenting results / Thomas J. Linneman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linneman, Thomas John.

Series:

Contemporary sociological perspectives series

Contemporary sociological perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Statistical methods.

Social sciences.

Statistics.

Physical Description:

1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

Second Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

Life in a data-laden age : finding and managing datasets

The art of visual storytelling : creating accurate tables and graphs

Summarizing center and diversity : basic descriptive statistics

Using sample crosstabs to talk about populations : the chi-square test

Using a sample mean or proportion to talk about a population : confidence intervals

Using multiple sample means to talk about populations : t-tests and anova

Give me one good reason why: bivariate correlation and regression

Using sample slopes to talk about populations : inference and regression

It's all relative : dichotomies as independent variables in regression

Above and beyond: the logic of controlling and the power of nested regression models

Some slopes are bigger than others : calculating and interpreting beta coefficients

Different slopes for different folks : interaction effects

Explaining dichotomous outcomes : logistic regression

Visualizing causal stories : path analysis

Questioning the greatness of straightness : nonlinear relationships

Problems and prospects : regression diagnostics, advanced techniques, and where to go now

Appendix A: Variables and indexes from the american national election studies, the world values survey, and three surveys from the pew internet and american life project

Appendix B: Eighty-six articles that use statistics in less than scary ways

Appendix C: Statistical tables

Appendix D: Answers to selected end-of-chapter exercises

Bibliography

Glossary/index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages R-1-R-3) and index.

ISBN:

0415661471

9780415661461

0415661463

9780415661478

0203073428

9780203073421

OCLC:

854848130

Publisher Number:

99960394118