Basic Statistics for Social Workers

Robert A. Schneider, Ph.D., LISW is Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Northern Iowa.

• Chapter 1 For the InstructorChapter 2 Figures, Images, Equations, and TablesChapter 3 Introduction: Definition of Statistics; Three Reasons to Learn Some Statistics; Variables and Attributes; Practice ProblemsChapter 4 Levels of Measurement: Nominal Level, Categorical Data; Ordinal Level Data; Continuous, Interval-Ration Level Data; Practice ProblemsChapter 5 Data Representation: Frequency Tables; Histograms; Percentiles; Practice ProblemsChapter 6 Measures of Central Tendency: Mean; Median; Mode; Skewness; Practice ProblemsChapter 7 Measures of Dispersion: Range; Variance; Standard Deviation; Z-Scores; Areas Under the Curve; Practice ProblemsChapter 8 P-Values: Standard Error of the Mean; Area Under the Curve and P-Values; Type I and Type II Errors; P-Values; Confidence Intervals; Practice ProblemsChapter 9 Measures of Association: Pearson, Spearman, and Point Bi-Serial: Correlations: Causality, Dependence & Association; Spearman and Point Bi-Serial Correlations; Practice ProblemsChapter 10 Multiple Regression: Basics; Practice ProblemsChapter 11 T-Test and One-Way Analysis of Variance: Basics; Directional T-Test; One-Way Analysis of Variance; Practice ProblemsChapter 12 Chi-Square: Chi Square; Fisher's Exact; Phi; Practice ProblemsChapter 13 Single System Analysis: Basics; Directional T-Test; One-Way Analysis of Variance; Practice ProblemsChapter 14 Intermediate Topics: Multi-way ANOVA; Factorial ANOVA; Analysis of Covariance (F-Test); Analysis of Covariance (Regression); Practice ProblemsChapter 15 Answers to ProblemsChapter 16 IndexChapter 17 Table A: Area Under the CurveChapter 18 Table B: Pearson Product Moment Correlation CoefficientsChapter 19 Table C: T-TestChapter 20 Table D: Significance of FChapter 21 Table E: Chi-Square ProbabilitiesChapter 22 Table F: Table of Random Numbers