Understanding Data
by Erickson, B.
This book is aimed at that legion of professional sociologists and students who have always feared numbers; it employs much visual display, for example, as an easy way into the data. Also, the book is written in a relaxed and enthusiastic way that reassures apprehensive students without watering down what they must be taught.
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- Full title :Understanding Data.
Summary
This book is aimed at that legion of professional sociologists and students who have always feared numbers; it employs much visual display, for example, as an easy way into the data. Also, the book is written in a relaxed and enthusiastic way that reassures apprehensive students without watering down what they must be taught.
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- Publication Date:1992.
- Edition:2nd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Open University Press
- Place of Publication:Milton Keynes
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1992.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (392 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780335231515, 0335231519, 9780335096626, 033509662X
- oclc:on1024281391
- Dewey Decimal:300.21
Table of Contents
Front cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the revised edition -- Chapter 1 Understanding data -- Section I Exploratory batch analysis -- Chapter 2 Organizing numbers -- Chapter 3 Understanding numerical summaries -- Chapter 4 Graphs: seeing and setting aside -- Chapter 5 Transforming data -- Chapter 6 Choosing a transformation for several related batches -- First review: Batch analysis -- Section II From exploration to confirmation -- Chapter 7 The random sample -- Chapter 8 Confirmatory statistics -- Chapter 9 When s Is not Known
Chapter 10 Comparing several batch levels -- Second review confirmatory comparison of levels -- Section III Y by U analysis -- Chapter 11 Y by X and straight lines -- Chapter 12 Unbending -- Chapter 13 Linear regression -- Chapter 14 Analysing Tables: Two- and Three-variable percentage tables -- Third Review: Y by X analysis -- Section IV Using Two Independent Variables -- Chapter 15 Elementary Analysis -- Chapter 16 Interaction effects in elementary analyses -- Chapter 17 Two-way analysis of variance -- Fourth Review: Two-way analysis -- Chapter 18 Getting more from residuals
Chapter 19 Partial Correlations and Causalit…
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