Exploring data: an introduction to data analysis for social scientist/
Catherine Marsh.
- Cambridge: Polity Press,
- 385 p.
Part 1: SINGLE VARIABLES ; 1. Distributions and Variables ; 2. Numerical Summaries of Level and Spread ; 3. Scaling and Standardizing ; 4. Price Indices ; 5. Inequality ;
Part 2: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TWO VARIABLES ; 6. Handling Several Batches ; 7. Percentage Tables ; 8. Analyzing Contingency Tables ; 9. Smoothing Time Series ; 10. Scatterplots and Resistant Lines ; 11. Transformations ;
Part 3: INTRODUCING A THIRD VARIABLE ; 12. Causal Explanations ; 13. Three Variable Contingency Tables ; 14. Standardization ; 15. Median Polishing ; 16. The Datasets.