Full Description
A companion volume to core texts targeting introductory social statistics courses, The Statistics Coach: Learning Through Practice helps students bridge the 'knowing-doing gap'. That is, while core texts help students understand statistics, the coaching program in this supplementary volume helps students do statistics. The Statistics Coach accomplishes this goal using a three-part structure - a 'tune-up', a lab application, and constructive feedback (tips on common errors and answers to the applications appear on the companion website) - that optimizes students' ability to apply and practise the theories, concepts, and techniques involved in using statistics as part of sociological research. In addition, a reference section at the end of the volume provides step-by-step guidelines for using SPSS, an essential application for working with data. As a result, The Statistics Coach offers much more than conventional study guides, which instead tend to focus on learning comprehension via chapter summaries, review of major concepts, and sample test questions.
Contents
'You Play the Way You Practise': A Preface for Students ; 1. An Introduction to SPSS ; 2. Basic Univariate Analyses ; 3. The Shape of Distributions and Z-Scores ; 4. Data Transformation ; 5. Bivariate Tables ; 6. Trivariate Tables ; 7. PRE Measures for Crosstabs ; 8. Correlation and Regression ; 9. Inference and Chi Square ; 10. Inference and t-tests ; 11. Samples and Inferences ; 12. Putting It All Together ; SPSS Essentials ; Notes ; About the Authors ; Index
