TY - BOOK AU - Rosenthal,James A. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Statistics and data interpretation for social work AV - HA29 .R796 2011eb U1 - 519.5 23 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Springer KW - Social sciences KW - Statistical methods KW - Social service KW - Research KW - Statistics KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Introduction and descriptive statistics -- Introduction and overview -- Data presentation -- Central tendency -- Measures of variability -- Shape of distribution -- The concept of relationship and relationship between categorical variables -- The odds ratio and other measures for categorical variables -- Correlation and regression -- Standardized mean difference -- Research design and causality -- Controlling for confounding variables; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10532065 ER -