"Statistics: A Tool for Social Research, International Edition", provides an accessible, well-balanced introduction to the fundamental concepts of statistics and their practical application to a wide variety of contemporary social issues. This comprehensive, reader-friendly text includes abundant real-world examples, engaging exercises, and integrated features to support effective learning for both math-averse beginners and more advanced students in diverse social science disciplines. The text covers hand calculations and the use of computers, providing a solid grounding in both traditional formulas and the latest SPSS statistical software package. Healey effectively breaks down even complex material to help students master key concepts and hone the skills they will need to succeed as professionals in a social science field - or simply to become "statistically literate", intelligent consumers of social research.
1. Introduction. 2. Basic Descriptive Statistics: Percentages, Ratios and Rates, Tables, Charts, and Graphs. 3. Measures of Central Tendency. 4. Measures of Dispersion. 5. The Normal Curve. 6. Introduction to Inferential Statistics: Sampling and the Sampling Distribution. 7. Estimation Procedures. 8. Hypothesis Testing I: The One-Sample Case. 9. Hypothesis Testing II: The Two-Sample Case. 10. Hypothesis Testing III: The Analysis of Variance. 11. Hypothesis Testing IV: Chi Square. 12. Association Between Variables Measured at the Nominal Level. 13. Association Between Variables Measured at the Ordinal Level. 14. Association Between Variables Measured at the Interval-Ratio Level. 15. Elaborating Bivariate Tables. 16. Partial Correlation and Multiple Regression and Correlation.