Understanding Statistics : For Social and Educational Research

This book is design to College students and other Professionals who would like to enhance knowledge on social and educational statistics. The book deals with uses and importance of statistics, collection and presentation of data, sampling technique, data organization, descriptive statistics such as frequency distribution, measures of central tendencies, position, dispersion/ variability, skewness, kurtosis, and normal distribution of data. Discussion and concrete illustrations on regression and correlation analysis, t- test, F-test, z-test, chi-square test, alternative non-parametric analysis of variance, one-way classification and two-way classification analysis of data. The methods of social research presented will enlighten young researcher on the appropriateness of statistical tools they will use in the analysis of data.