Preface xi
I. Basic Concepts and Measures
1. Statistics in the Research Process
2. Describing Variables

II. Statistical Inference
3. Making Statistical Inferences

III. Analyzing Bivariate Relationships
4. Analysis of Variance
5. Analyzing Categoric Data
6. Bivariate Regression and Correlation

IV. Multivariate Models
7. The Logic of Multivariate Contingency Analysis
8. Multiple Regression Analysis
9. Nonlinear and Logistic Regression

V. Advanced Topics
10. Log-Linear Analysis
11. Causal Models and Path Analysis
12. Structural Equation Models

Appendices
A. The Use of Summations
B. Critical Values of Chi Square (table)
C. Areas Under the Normal Curve (table)
D. Student's t Distribution (table)
E. F Distribution (table)
F. Fisher's r-to-Z Transformation (table)

Glossary of Terms
List of Mathematical and Statistical Symbols
Answers to Problems
Index