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Compassionate Statistics
Applied Quantitative Analysis for Social Services (With exercises and instructions in SPSS)



September 2007 | 336 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Designed as a companion manual to mainstream methods textbooks, this text provides a comprehensive, yet pragmatic, resource for social service professionals to use standard descriptive and inferential statistical techniques in ways that are meaningful to them, to their social agencies, to their funding sources, and, ultimately, to their clients.
 
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

This is an accessible book written in down to earth language. It is suitable for beginner students as it explains the basic concepts such as mean and standard deviations alongside examples - which make this a very clear book for students.

Dr Gemma Griffith
School of Psychology, Bangor University
June 23, 2015

easy to understand

Dr Alex Kerwin
Counseling Dept, Idaho State Univ-Pocatello
December 23, 2014

What I needed for class

Dr Stephanie Burns
Graduate Counseling, Heidelberg College - Tiffin
September 6, 2012

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