STATISTICS FOR SOCIAL AND BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES

Author: Babita Kherwa

Statistics for Behavioural and Social Sciences offers an integrated approach to the study of statistics placing due emphasis on theory, application, and computational procedures. Behavioral sciences abstract empirical data to investigate the decision processes and communication strategies within and between organisms in a social system. Statistics as a subject has come to acquire a great deal of importance during the past few decades. It is being increasingly used in different areas of human activity agriculture, biology medicine psychology sociology and other disciplines in the social sciences This has come about because the basic concepts and principles of statistics are essentially the same, irrespective of the area in which these are south to b applied. The statistical methods presented in this book are of a general nature .

Contents: Introduction to Statistics Measures of Central Tendency  Dispersion Measures of Variability  Measures of Skewness, Moments and Kurtosis Correlation: Measure of Relationships Regression Analysis Interpolation and Extrapolation Analysis of Time Series  Index Number  Numerical Questions

ISBN 9789385958182

1995

1995