Statistics for Social Workers

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It includes numerous social work practice examples, and discusses types of statistical analyses that are most likely to be encountered by social work practitioners and researchers, but assumes no prior experience with statistics. This edition has been reorganized and updated, with new content added on statistical power, effect size, and measures of association. New topics have been incorporated, including logistic regression and other methods of analysis not in prior editions. New figures and new content on sampling distributions and standard scores (z-scores) have also been added. For anyone interested in research methods and social work.

SYNOPSIS

Designed for use in undergraduate and graduate social work research courses, this text is written so that no background in statistical analysis is required. Emphasis is on a conceptual understanding of statistics and its usefulness to social work practice and research. In this sixth edition, Weinbach (University of South Carolina) and Grinnell (Illinois State University) present expanded content on random samples, measurement error, and cultural bias. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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