Statistics for Social and Health Research : With a Guide to SPSS Book

PART ONE: UNIVARIATE DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS Variables and Their Measurement Setting up an SPSS Data File The Tabular Description of Data The Numerical Description of Data Measures of Central Tendency and Measures of Dispersion The Graphical Description of Data The Normal Curve PART TWO: BIVARIATE DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS Investigating the Relationship between Two Variables The Tabular Description of Nominal and Ordinal Data Numerical Description of Nominal Data Measures of Association Numerical Description of Ordinal Data Graphical and Numerical Description of Interval/Ratio Data Scatter Plots and Linear Regression PART THREE: INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: THE ONE-SAMPLE CASE Sampling Distributions Estimation and Confidence Intervals Introduction to Hypothesis Testing One-Sample z-Test for a Mean The One-Sample t-Test for a Mean One-Sample Tests for a Binomial Distribution One-Sample Tests for a Frequency Distrbution PART FOUR: INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: TWO OR MORE INDEPENDENT SAMPLES The F-Test for the Equality of More Than Two Means Analysis of Variance Rank-Order Tests for Two or More Samples The Chi-Square Test for Independence The t-Test for a Correlation Coefficient PART FIVE: INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: TWO DEPENDENT SAMPLES The t-Test for the Mean Difference Non-Parametric Tests for Two Dependent Samples PART SIX: MULTIVARIATE DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS Elaborating Crosstabs Adding Control Variables Multiple Regression