Tom Pering

Exploring Data and Statistics in the Social Sciences

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A succinct, no-frills introduction to social science data and statistics. It uses visual maps and prompts to communicate the potential of social data and to introduce the basic statistical tools available to beginners.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 170mm
• ISBN-13: 9781529628289
• ISBN-10: 1529628288
• Artikelnr.: 74441445

Autorenporträt

Tom Pering is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Why you should love numbers as a social scientist
Chapter 2: The Foundations of Data Handling and Statistics
Chapter 3: How we conduct research
Chapter 4: Handling everyday numbers
Chapter 5: Data presentation - how to choose and use the correct graph
Chapter 6: Describing your data and how it varies
Chapter 7: Understanding sampling and what statistical significance really
means
Chapter 8: How normal is your data?
Chapter 9: When is a difference between variables real?
Chapter 10: Real or spurious - the reality of association and correlation
Chapter 11: Relationships between two or more variables
Chapter 12: Exploring patterns between categorical variables
Chapter 13: Exploring patterns in space
Chapter 14: Exploring patterns in time
Chapter 15: Outro