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This fully revised, expanded and updated Second Edition of the bestselling textbook by Jane Fielding and Nigel Gilbert provides a comprehensive yet accessible guide tquantitative data analysis Designed thelp take the fear out of the use of numbers in social research, this textbook introduces students tstatistics as a powerful means of revealing patterns in human behavior The textbook covers everything typically included in an introductory course on social statistics for students in the social sciences and the authors have taken the opportunity of this Second Edition tbring the data sources as current as possible The book is full of up-to-date examples and useful and clear illustrations using the latest SPSS software While maintaining the student-friendly elements of the first, such as chapter summaries, exercises at the end of each chapter, and a glossary of key terms, new features tthis edition include:Updated examples and references SPSS coverage and screen-shots now incorporate the current version 140 and are used tdemonstrate the latest social statistics datasetsAdditions tcontent include a brand new section on developing a coding frame and an additional discussion of weighting counts as a means of analyzing published statisticsEnhanced design aids navigation which is further simplified by the addition of core objectives for each chapter and bullet-pointed chapter summariesThe updated Website at http:/wwwsocsurreyacuk/uss/indexhtml reflects changes made tthe text and provides updated datasetsA valuable and practical guide for students dealing with the large amounts of data that are typically collected in social surveys, the Second Edition of Understanding Social Statistics is an essential textbook for courses on statistics and quantitative research across the social sciences
