Social statistics

Author: Weng Dingjun
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: With the development of computer technology, modern statistical surveys characterized by "sampling-questionnaire-quantitative analysis" have been increasingly widely used. This book mainly introduces some commonly used statistical methods in social survey research. The entire book is divided into ten chapters. The first three chapters cover basic statistical methods, introducing statistical tables, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, and correlation. The middle three chapters provide the foundational knowledge of inferential statistics, focusing on the probability basics involved in inferential statistics, parameter estimation, and hypothesis testing. The last four chapters introduce the methods for establishing several mathematical models frequently used in survey data analysis, including multiple linear regression, path analysis, logistic regression, and log-linear models. For practical application, the book also combines currently popular SPSS statistical software to introduce relevant statistical operations and provides more specific explanations of the statistical significance of the output results. This book is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students of sociology, as well as sociological workers for study. It also holds certain reference value for educators, psychologists, and other social science workers.