Compassionate statistics : applied quantitative analysis for social services with Exercises and Instructions in SPSS / by Faherty, Vincent E. (Vincent Edward), 1939-, Sage Knowledge

Table of Contents: “…Introduction, overview, and nondefinitions -- Levels of data : nominal, ordinal, and scale -- Presenting data in tables -- Presenting data in figures -- The 3 M's : mean, median, and mode -- Standard deviations, ranges, and quartiles -- Other descriptive statistics -- Probability and statistical significance -- Chi-square test of independence -- Correlation : scattergrams -- Correlation : Spearman's rho and Pearson's r -- T-test for paired samples -- T-test for independent samples -- One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with post hoc tests -- Nonparametric alternatives to common parametric tests.…”
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