Social Statistics

This text/workbook/disk/CD-ROM package teaches statistics to students in social sciences and related disciplines such as criminal justice and education, starting with methods for analyzing only one variable at a time and progressing through three or more variables at a time. The accompanying workbook invites students to do calculations by hand before performing computer analyses, with cases and exercises relying on real data from sources such as the US Census and the General Social Survey. The companion software contains a student version of MicroCase and data sets. This fourth edition uses updated and expanded data sets and incorporates a new version of the MicroCase software. Fox teaches sociology at Skidmore College. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)