| Description |
1 online resource (337 pages) |
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text file |
| Summary |
Compassionate Statistics: Applied Quantitative Analysis for Social Services (With Instructions for SPSS 14.0) is an attempt to "de-mythologize" a content area that is both essential for professional social service practitioners, yet dreaded by some of the most experienced among them. Using friendly, straightforward language as well as concrete illustrations and exercises from social service practice, author Vincent E. Faherty catapults students and experienced professionals to a pragmatic level where they can handle quantitative analysis for all their research and evaluation needs. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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SPSS (Computer file)
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SPSS (Computer file) |
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SPSS (Computer file) |
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Social service -- Statistical methods.
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Social service -- Statistical methods. |
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Evaluation research (Social action programs) -- Statistical methods.
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Evaluation research (Social action programs) -- Statistical methods. |
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Evaluation research (Social action programs) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781412939829 |
| ISBN |
9781452244945 (electronic book) |
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1452244944 (electronic book) |
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1412939828 (paperback) |
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9781412939829 (paperback) |
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