Simple Statistics: A Course Book for the Social Sciences

Frances Clegg
Cambridge University Press, 1/13/1983
EAN 9780521288026, ISBN10: 0521288029

Paperback, 210 pages, 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.1 cm
Language: English

Simple Statistics is suitable primarily for A-level students and undergraduates following courses in psychology and, to a lesser degree, sociology, economics and geography.

Acknowledgements
1. Why do we need statistics?
2. Measures of central tendency
3. Measures of dispersion
4. The normal distribution
5. Probability
6. What are statistical tests all about?
7. Hypotheses
8. Significance
9. Simple statistical tests
10. What’s in a number
11. Two parametric tests
12. Tests of goodness of fit
13. The design of experiments
14. Sampling
15. Correlation
16. In the last analysis …
17. Operation schedules
Answers to exercises
Appendix
Index.