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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- 1 Introduction -- A Fear of Statistics? -- A Small Example -- An Overview of the Chapters -- Measurement and Levels of Measurement -- Computers and Statistics -- Important Terms -- Suggested Readings -- 2 Organization and Presentation of Data -- Rates -- Frequency Distribution -- Pictorial Presentation -- An SPSS Example: FREQUENCIES -- Important Terms -- Suggested Readings -- 3 Descriptive Measures: Centrality -- The Mode -- The Median -- Quartiles, Deciles, and Percentiles -- The Mean -- Grouped Data -- Coded Data -- Notes on the Measures of Centrality -- An SPSS Example -- Important Terms -- Suggested Readings -- Quick Quiz Answers -- Important Symbols Introduced in This Chapter -- 4 Measures of Dispersion -- Ranges -- Deviation Measures -- The Standard Deviation and the Normal Distribution -- An SPSS Example: z-Scores -- Important Terms -- Suggested Readings -- Quick Quiz Answers -- 5 Bases of Statistical Inference, I: Probability and the Logic of Hypothesis Testing -- Probability: A Way of Viewing the World -- Basic Rules of Probability -- Probability and Social Science -- The Binomial Distribution and the Normal Curve -- Probability and the Logic of Hypothesis Testing -- One-Tail and Two-Tail Tests -- Important Terms -- Suggested Readings -- Quick Quiz Answers -- 6 Bases of Statistical Inference, II: Sampling and Estimation -- Populations and Samples -- The Sampling Distribution of a Statistic -- How Big Must a Sample Be? -- An Adjustment for Small Populations -- Estimation -- The Standard Error -- Sample Size and the Standard Error -- Estimation from Finite Populations -- Important Terms -- Suggested Readings -- Quick Quiz Answers