WITH SPSS for Windows Companion (Statistics: A Tool for Social Research) - Hardcover

Healey, Joseph F.

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9780534557850: WITH SPSS for Windows Companion (Statistics: A Tool for Social Research)

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ISBN 10: 0534557856 ISBN 13: 9780534557850

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2001

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A comprehensive, student-oriented text that provides students a challenging first look at social statistics by illustrating the application of statistics to contemporary social issues. Students learn to read and interpret statistics in a variety of settings. Each chapter is complete with numerous practice exercises, problems, and demonstrations and applications of the latest SPSS and in this edition - MicroCase- statistical software packages to reinforce chapter concepts, operations, and formulas. The book's primary emphasis is on developing the following skills necessary for students to become "statistically literate": computational competence; appreciation of statistics; and the ability to read professional social science literature.

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"I especially enjoyed the sections on 'Reading Statistics' because they provide an important link between the class and students' other studies and broader lives. I appreciate the efforts of the author to provide problems for students that apply to several social science fields."

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This text offers a nontechnical introduction to statistics for students of sociology, social work, criminal justice, political science, and other social sciences. Material is written at a level intermediate between a strictly mathematical approach and a "cookbook" approach, with an emphasis on interpretation and computer applications. Learning feat

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