Social Statistics for a Diverse Society
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Chava Frankfort-Nachmias and Anna Leon-Guerrero
January 2014
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Student Resources by Chapter

  1. The What and the Why of Statistics
  2. Organization of Information: Frequency Distributions
  3. Graphic Presentation
  4. Measures of Central Tendency
  5. Measures of Variability
  6. The Normal Distribution
  7. Sampling and Sampling Distributions
  8. Estimation
  9. Testing Hypotheses
  10. Bivariate Tables
  11. The Chi-Square Test and Measures of Association
  12. Analysis of Variance
  13. Regression and Correlation

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Web Resources

Sites with Useful Data

Other Sites of Interest

  • http://www.asanet.org/
    American Sociological Association - Membership and activities information
  • http://www.aarp.org/
    American Association of Retired Persons - Membership and activities information
  • http://splcenter.org/
    Southern Poverty Law Center - Combats hate, intolerance, & discrimination
  • http://dol.gov/
    U.S. Department of Labor - Information on employment and wages
  • http://www.naacp.org/
    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - History, mission, and membership
  • http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/
    The Center for the American Woman and Politics - Women in government
  • http://www.nwlc.org
    National Women's Law Center - Information on women and the law/legal system
  • http://www.brookings.org
    The Brookings Review - Reports of the Brookings Institute
  • http://nces.ed.gov/
    National Assessment of Educational Progress - Evaluations of America's educational system
  • http://www.fairvote.org
    The Center for Voting and Democracy - Information on America's political system
  • http://www.collegeboard.com
    The College Board - Information on SAT test results
  • http://www.fec.gov/
    Federal Election Commission - Federal election finances and results
  • http://www.osha.gov/
    Occupational Safety and Health Administration - Safety in the work environment
  • http://www.naia.org/
    National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics - History and competition information
  • http://www.ncaa.org/
    National Collegiate Athletic Association - History and competition information
  •  http://pewhispanic.org/
    Pew Hispanic Center is a nonpartisan research organization that seeks to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the nation. The website has public datasets available for use and summary reports.
  • http://www.city-data.com/
    Provides statistical demographic data on states and cities in the United States. Some examples include: geographical data, state profiles, crime data, registered sex offenders, cost of living, housing, and religions.
  • http://einstein.library.emory.edu/links.shtml
    Has multiple links to various data providers and also provides links to data by subject as well.
  • http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/onlinedata.asp
    Most comprehensive national website for statistical information on education related issues. Also has example of questionnaire items and other data tools to compute some basic statistics for various regions around the country.
  • http://www.gallup.com/Home.aspx
    Gallup Daily News reports empirical evidence to leaders and decision makers worldwide about how the world's 6 billion citizens think and behave. Website has excellent examples that can be used for class exercises or to increase use of statistics in everyday life.
  • http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/
    Office for Human Research Protections, Department of Health and Human Services. This website provides information on human subjects review boards, requirements, and applications for universities and other agencies.
  • http://www.rti.org/page.cfm/Statistics_Research
    Research Triangle International house a number of datasets, many dealing with childhood or adolescent health concerns. RTI is a hub for statistical analyses for various projects occurring across the globe.
  • http://www.rand.org/about/tools/
    Research and Development (RAND) provides a link to a number of databases and research tools on their website.
  • http://www.spss.com/academic/educator/special-programs/
    The SPSS Education Resource Center website is a place “where you'll find exclusive tools to help your students master the analytical skills needed in today's workplace. From first-day-of-class slide presentations to comprehensive curriculum starter kits, you'll find the resources you need to teach statistics and data mining techniques using SPSS Inc. software.”
  • http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/
    This is an excellent database for political scientists, global scholars, or anyone interested in researching terrorist acts. It has easy access to dataset online.
  • http://grants.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm
    This is the National Institute of Health website on grants. It is a good place to seek grant funding to fund research projects.
  • http://www.who.int/research/en/
    The World Health Organization provides data and statistics on health issues worldwide. They also have a Junior Professional program and an Intern program.
  • http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/assurances/
    This is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Human Research Protection website. This website offers information on human subjects, IRB, certification, etc.
  • http://www.surveymonkey.com/
    Survey Monkey is an easy to use website where students can create surveys. Some schools have full subscriptions to the website for full access.
  • http://www.esurveyspro.com/
    This is another excellent survey tool where students can create and send surveys online. They can even add charts, picture, etc. for students to comment on.

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