Making sense of statistical methods in social research [electronic resource] / Keming Yang.
"Making Sense of Statistical Methods in Social Research is a critical introduction to the use of statistical methods in social research. It provides a unique approach to statistics that concentrates on helping social researchers think about the conceptual basis for the statistical methods they&...
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2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The use of statistical methods in social research
- Cases and variables
- The logic of sampling
- Estimating and measuring one important thing
- Studying the relationship between two variables
- Linear regression models and their generalizations
- Time matters
- Statistical case-oriented methods
- Methods for analysing latent variables
- Causal analysis.