Basic Statistics for Social Workers

Robert Schneider

doi:10.5771/9780761849339

Summary

Basic Statistics for Social Workers, now in a revised edition, was developed by Schneider after teaching statistics to undergraduate and graduate social work students for over ten years. The statistical concepts that are necessary for students to know are covered, ranging from simple descriptive statistics such as crosstabs and tabular data up to a limited discussion of multiple regression. The text is written simply for students who may not have a strong quantitative background. The text is simple enough that with the practice problems and perhaps a little consultation a motivated student could self-teach the content.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2009
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-2606-4
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-4933-9
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 101
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Preface to the Revised Edition No access
3. For the Instructor No access
1. 1. Definition of statistics No access
2. 2. Three reasons to learn some statistics No access
3. 3. Quantitative vs. Qualitative Data No access
4. 4. Variables and Attributes No access
5. 5. Practice Problems No access
1. 1. Nominal Level No access
2. 2. Ordinal Level Data No access
3. 3. Interval Level Data No access
4. 4. Ratio Level Data No access
5. 5. Practice Problems No access
1. 1. Frequency Tables No access
2. 2. Crosstabs No access
3. 3. Histograms No access
4. 4. Percentiles No access
5. 5. Practice Problems No access
1. 1. Mean No access
2. 2. Median No access
3. 3. Mode No access
4. 4. Statistics and Parameters No access
5. 5. Skewness No access
6. 6. Practice Problems No access
1. 1. Range No access
2. 2. Standard Deviation and Variance No access
3. 3. Z-Scores No access
4. 4. Areas Under the curve No access
5. 5. Practice Problems No access
1. 1. Sampling No access
2. 2. Probability and P-Values No access
3. 3. Type I Error No access
4. 4. Type II Error No access
5. 5. Confidence Intervals No access
6. 6. Practice Problems No access
1. 1. Pearson Product-Moment Correlations No access
2. 2. Spearman and Point Biserial No access
3. 3. Shared Variance and Error No access
4. 4. Causality No access
5. 5. Practice Problems No access
1. 1. Practice Problems No access
1. 1. Basics No access
2. 2. Practice Problems No access
1. 1. t-Test No access
2. 2. Directional t-test No access
3. 3. One-Way Analysis of Variance No access
4. 4. Practice Problems No access
1. 1. Calculating Expected Values in Chi Square No access
2. 2. Fisher's Exact No access
3. 3. Phi No access
4. 4. Practice Problems No access
1. 1. Practice Problems No access
Tables No access Pages 93 - 99
About the Author No access Pages 100 - 100
Index No access Pages 101 - 101