5 Things You Need to Know about Statistics

William W. Dressler , professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama, USA is a medical anthropologist with interests in culture theory, community studies, research methods, and the relationship between culture and disease. He has adapted models of psychosocial stress to examine the association between social and cultural factors and the risk of chronic disease, including cardiovascular disease. His recent work emphasizes concepts and methods needed to evaluate the health effects of individual efforts to achieve culturally defined goals and aspirations, and he has helped develop research methods for the study of connections among cultural, individual, and biological spheres. His research has been conducted in settings as diverse as urban Great Britain, the Southeast U.S., the West Indies, Mexico, and Samoa.

• Introduction; The 5 Things You Need to Know about Statistics; Chapter 1 Measures of Central Tendency: The Arithmetic Mean; Chapter 2 Measures of Dispersion: The Standard Deviation; Chapter 3 The Logic of Statistical Significance Testing: Chi-Square; Chapter 4 The Logic of Statistical Significance Testing: Analysis of Variance; Chapter 5 The Logic of the Correlation Coefficient; Quantification in Ethnographic Research; Chapter 6 Some Additional Thoughts on the 5 Things You Need to Know about Statistics; Chapter 7 Three Analyses Extending the Concept of Correlation; Chapter 8 Integrating Quantitative Research in Anthropological Research Design; Chapter 9 Best of Luck!;