SOCIAL STATISTICS - 2ND ED, REVISED

• NCJ Number: 59547
• Author(s): H M BLALOCK
• Date Published: 1979
• Length: 625 pages
• Corporate Author: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co
• Sale Source: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co
• Publication Type: Statistics
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: MCGRAW-HILL SERIES IN SOCIOLOGY

Annotation

THE UNDERLYING LOGIC OF STATISTICAL INFERENCE IS EMPHASIZED IN THIS INTRODUCTORY TEXT ON APPLIED STATISTICS FOR ADVANCED UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF SOCIOLOGY WHO PLAN TO ENGAGE IN SOCIAL RESEARCH.

Abstract

INTRODUCTORY MATERIALS COVER THE PURPOSES AND LIMITATIONS OF STATISTICS AND THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS AMONG THEORETICAL PROPOSITIONS, EMPIRICAL HYPOTHESES, MEASUREMENT, AND MATHEMATICAL MODELS. THE REMAINING CHAPTERS DEAL WITH SPECIFIC STATISTICAL TOOLS, PROGRESSING FROM THE SIMPLEST TO THE MOST COMPLEX, AND ILLUSTRATING APPLICATIONS WITH EXAMPLES FROM THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. CHAPTERS ON UNIVARIATE DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS COVER NOMINAL SCALES (PROPORTIONS, PERCENTAGES, RATIOS); INTERVAL SCALES (FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS, GRAPHIC PRESENTATION, MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY, MEASURES OF DISPERSION); AND NORMAL DISTRIBUTION. FOLLOWING A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF INDUCTIVE STATISTICS AND THE TESTING OF STATISTICAL HYPOTHESES, THE SECTION ON INDUCTIVE STATISTICS DISCUSSES PROBABILITY, THE TESTING OF HYPOTHESES (BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION), SINGLE-SAMPLE TESTS INVOLVING MEANS AND PROPORTIONS, AND POINT AND INTERVAL ESTIMATION. CHAPTERS ON BIVARIATE AND MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS COVER TWO-SAMPLE TESTS (DIFFERENCE OF MEANS AND PROPORTIONS) ORDINAL SCALES (TWO-SAMPLE NONPARAMETRIC TESTS) NOMINAL SCALES (CONTINGENCY PROBLEMS) ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CORRELATION AND REGRESSION; MULTIPLE AND PARTIAL CORRELATION AND ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE, DUMMY VARIABLES, AND OTHER APPLICATIONS OF THE LINEAR MODEL. THE FINAL SECTION DEALS WITH SAMPLING (SIMPLE RANDOM, SYSTEMATIC, STRATIFIED, CLUSTER, AND NONPROBABILITY, SAMPLING TECHNIQUES, NONSAMPLING ERRORS, SAMPLE SIZE). THIS REVISION OF THE SECOND EDITION INCLUDES NEW EXERCISES, UPDATED LISTS OF REFERENCES AT THE ENDS OF CHAPTERS, AND NEW MATERIALS ON MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS (INCLUDING EXPANDED DISCUSSIONS OF NOMINAL AND ORDINAL PROCEDURES THAT ARE INTEGRAL PARTS OF STANDARD COMPUTER PROGRAMS USED IN SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH). A REVIEW OF BASIC ALGEBRA, TABLES USEFUL IN STATISTICAL CALCULATION, AND NAME AND SUBJECT INDEXES ARE PROVIDED. (LKM)