Statistics for the Social Sciences

Do your students lack confidence in handling quantitative work? Do they get confused about how to enter statistical data on SAS and SPSS programs? This Second Edition of Mark Sirkin's popular textbook is the solution to these dilemmas. The book moves gradually from concepts that require little computational work to those that require more; emphasizes utilization so that students appreciate the usefulness of statistics; shows how the interpretation of data is related to the methods by which data was obtained; and includes coverage of the scientific method, levels of measurement and the interpretation of tables.