ABSTRACT

Applied Statistics for the Social and Health Sciences provides graduate students in the social and health sciences with the basic skills that they need to estimate, interpret, present, and publish statistical models using contemporary standards. The book targets the social and health science branches such as human development, public health, sociology, psychology, education, and social work in which students bring a wide range of mathematical skills and have a wide range of methodological affinities. For these students, a successful course in statistics will not only offer statistical content but will also help them develop an appreciation for how statistical techniques might answer some of the research questions of interest to them.

This book is for use in a two-semester graduate course sequence covering basic univariate and bivariate statistics and regression models for nominal and ordinal outcomes, in addition to covering ordinary least squares regression.

Key features of the book include:

  • interweaving the teaching of statistical concepts with examples developed for the course from publicly-available social science data or drawn from the literature
  • thorough integration of teaching statistical theory with teaching data processing and analysis
  • teaching of both SAS and Stata "side-by-side" and use of chapter exercises in which students practice programming and interpretation on the same data set and course exercises in which students can choose their own research questions and data set.

This book is for a two-semester course. For a one-semester course, see https://www.routledge.com/9780415991544/

part |2 pages

PART 2: BASIC DESCRIPTIVE AND INFERENTIAL STATISTICS

chapter 5|48 pages

Basic Descriptive Statistics

chapter 7|41 pages

Bivariate Inferential Statistics

part |2 pages

PART 3: ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION

chapter 8|55 pages

Basic Concepts of Bivariate Regression

chapter 9|40 pages

Basic Concepts of Multiple Regression

chapter 10|47 pages

Dummy Variables

chapter 11|52 pages

Interactions

chapter 12|28 pages

Nonlinear Relationships

chapter 13|20 pages

Indirect Effects and Omitted Variable Bias

part |2 pages

PART 4: THE GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL

chapter 16|57 pages

Dichotomous Outcomes

chapter 17|60 pages

Multi-Category Outcomes

part |2 pages

PART 5: WRAPPING UP

chapter 18|14 pages

Roadmap to Advanced Topics