Statistics for Social Data Analysis

Preface The Social Research Process.........................1 Frequency Distributions.......................27 Describing Frequency Distributions......................65 Crosstabulation........................101 Statistical Inference and Hypothesis Testing..........................135 Testing for the Difference between Two Means............................187 Testing for the Difference between Several Means...............................219 Estimating Relations between Two Continuous Variables: Bivariate Regression and Correlation..................253 Measuring Association with Discrete Variables...............................305 The Logic of Multivariate Contingency Analysis................................349 Multiple Regression Analysis.............................381 Causal Models and Path Analysis............................431 Appendices......................467 Glossary of Terms............................489 List of Mathematical and Statistical Symbols....................503 Answers to Problems.........................511 Index........................547