Compassionate Statistics: Applied Quantitative Analysis for Social Services, with exercises and instructions in SPSS
Vincent E.Faherty · 2008
Acknowledgments 1. Introduction, Overview, and Nondefinitions 2. Levels of Data: Nominal, Ordinal, and Scale 3. Presenting Data in Tables 4. Presenting Data in Figures 5. The 3 Ms: Mean, Median, and Mode 6. Standard Deviations, Ranges, and Quartiles 7. Other Descriptive Statistics 8. Probability and Statistical Significance 9. Chi-Square Test of Independence 10. Correlation: Scattergrams 11. Correlation: Spearman's rho and Pearson's r 12. t-Test for Paired Samples 13. t-Test for Independent Samples 14. One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) With Post Hoc Tests 15. Nonparametric Alternatives to Common Parametric Tests Appendix A: Getting Started With SPSS Appendix B: SPSS Data Sets Appendix C: Outline of Common Univariate and Bivariate Statistical Procedures Appendix D: Outline of Common Parametric and Nonparametric Inferential Tests Appendix E: Table of Random Numbers With Instructions Appendix F: Glossary of Terms Index About the Author