For courses in Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences . Statistical methods applied to social sciences, made accessible to all through an emphasis on concepts Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences introduces statistical methods to students majoring in social science disciplines. With an emphasis on concepts and applications, this book assumes you have no previous knowledge of statistics and only a minimal mathematical background. It contains sufficient material for a two-semester course. The 5th Edition gives you examples and exercises with a variety of “real data.” It includes more illustrations of statistical software for computations and takes advantage of the outstanding applets to explain key concepts, such as sampling distributions and conducting basic data analyses. It continues to downplay mathematics–often a stumbling block for students–while avoiding reliance on an overly simplistic recipe-based approach to statistics.
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IntroductionSampling and MeasurementDescriptive StatisticsProbability DistributionsStatistical Inference: EstimationStatistical Inference: Significance TestsComparison of Two GroupsAnalyzing Association between Categorical VariablesLinear Regression and CorrelationIntroduction to Multivariate RelationshipsMultiple Regression and CorrelationModel Building with Multiple RegressionLogistic Regression: Modeling Categorical ResponsesAn Introduction to Advanced Methodology
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Hallmark features of this title Real examples help students learn the fundamental concepts of sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and significance tests.Low technical level in first 9 chapters makes the text accessible to undergraduates.Integration of descriptive and inferential statistics features appear from an early point in the text.Strong emphasis on regression topics outlines special cases of a generalized linear model, supported by a wide variety of regression models (such as linear regression, ANOVA, logistic, and regression).Descriptive statistics chapter gives students early exposure to contingency tables, regression, concepts of association, and response and explanatory variables.Relative frequency concept is introduced in chapter 4 and briefly summarizes 3 basic probability rules occasionally applied in the text.
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New and updated features of this title Greater integration of statistical software: Software output shown now uses R and Stata instead of only SAS and SPSS. The appendix provides instructions about basic use.New examples and exercises ask students to use applets to help learn the fundamental concepts of sampling distributions, confidence intervals, and significance tests. The text also now relies more on applets for finding tail probabilities from distributions such as the normal, t, and chi-squared. ANOVA coverage has been reorganized to put more emphasis on using regression models with dummy variables to handle categorical explanatory variables.Content updates: Chapter 5 has a new section that introduces maximum likelihood estimation and the bootstrap method.Chapter 13 on regression modeling now has a new section using case studies to illustrate how research studies commonly use regression with both types of explanatory variables. The chapter also has a new section introducing linear mixed models.Chapter 14 contains a new section on robust regression covering standard errors and nonparametric regression. Chapter 16 has 2 new sections: Multiple imputation methods to help deal with missing data and Multilevel Models.
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ISBN
9780134507101
Publisert
2017-05-29
Utgave
5. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Pearson
Vekt
1157 gr
Høyde
260 mm
Bredde
210 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
608

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Alan Agresti is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida. He has been teaching statistics there for 30 years, including the development of 3 courses in statistical methods for social science students and 3 courses in categorical data analysis. He is author of over 100 refereed article and 4 texts including Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning From Data (with Christine Franklin, Pearson, 4th edition 2017) and Categorical Data Analysis (Wiley, 3rd edition 2012). He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Science from De Montfort University in the UK. In 2003 he was named Statistician of the Year by the Chicago chapter of the American Statistical Association and in 2004 he was the first honoree of the Herman Callaert Leadership Award in Biostatistical Education and Dissemination awarded by the University of Limburgs, Belgium. He has held visiting positions at Harvard University, Boston University, London School of Economics, and Imperial College and has taught courses or short courses for universities and companies in about 20 countries worldwide. He has also received teaching awards from UF and an excellence in writing award from John Wiley & Sons.