Known for his exceptional and student-friendly writing style, Joseph Healey's new book provides the essentials of statistics, makes no assumptions about the students' knowledge of math, and is very applied in its approach. The book's primary emphasis is on developing the student's skills to become 'statistically literate,' with computational competence and the ability to read social science literature with greater comprehension.
Part 1 Descriptive Statistics
- Basic Descriptive Statistics: Percentages, Ratios and Rates, Frequency Distributions
- Charts and Graphs
- Measures of Central Tendency
etc.
Part 2 Inferential Statistics
- Introduction to Inferential Statistics, the Sampling Distribution, and Estimation
- Hypothesis Testing I: The One-Sample Case
- Hypothesis Testing II: The Two-Sample Case
etc.
Part 3 Bivariate Measures of Association
- Introduction to Bivariate Association and Measures of Association for Variables Measured at the Nominal Level
- Association Between Variables Measured at the Ordinal Level
- Association Between Variables Measured at the Interval-Ratio Level
Part 4 Multivariate Techniques
- Partial Correlation and Multiple Regression and Correlation