TY - BOOK AU - Levin,Jack AU - Fox,James Alan AU - Forde,David R. TI - Elementary statistics in social research SN - 9780205845484 U1 - 300.727 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Pearson KW - Social sciences KW - Statistical methods KW - Statistics N1 - Preface -- . why the social researcher uses statistics -- Description -- Organizing the data -- Measures of central tendency -- Measures of variability -- From description to decision making -- Probability and the normal curve -- Samples and populations -- Decision making -- Testing differences between means -- Analysis of variance -- Nonparametric tests of significance -- From decision making to association -- Correlation -- Regression analysis -- Nonparametric measures of correlation -- Applying statistics -- Choosing statistical procedures for research problems -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Using spss and the general social survey -- Appendix B A review of some fundamentals of mathematics -- Appendix C Tables -- Appendix D List of formulas -- Glossary -- Answers to problems -- Index ER -