Compassionate statistics applied quantitative analysis for social services with Exercises and Instructions in SPSS /
Compassionate Statistics: Applied Quantitative Analysis for Social Services (With Instructions for SPSS 14.0) is an attempt to "de-mythologize" a content area that is both essential for professional social service practitioners, yet dreaded by some of the most experienced among them. Using...
| Основен автор: | Faherty, Vincent E. 1939- |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Thousand Oaks :
Sage Publications,
2008.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=477947 |
Съдържание:
- Introduction, overview, and nondefinitions
- Levels of data : nominal, ordinal, and scale
- Presenting data in tables
- Presenting data in figures
- The 3 M's : mean, median, and mode
- Standard deviations, ranges, and quartiles
- Other descriptive statistics
- Probability and statistical significance
- Chi-square test of independence
- Correlation : scattergrams
- Correlation : Spearman's rho and Pearson's r
- T-test for paired samples
- T-test for independent samples
- One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with post hoc tests
- Nonparametric alternatives to common parametric tests.