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Online Research Articles and Questions

The purpose of this online resource of articles is to stimulate thought and discussion about how statistics are used in social science research. Reading the articles and answering the questions provided should greatly increase your understanding of the materials you are studying and put them in the context of actual research.

This resource is organized into thematic parts which correspond to most of the textbook's chapters. All of the articles have been selected from reputable scholarly journals, and additional articles are recommended for further study.

 

Chapter 1: The What and the Why of Statistics
Chapter 2: Organization of Information: Frequency Distributions
Chapter 3: Graphic Presentations
Chapters 4 and 5: Measures of Central Tendency and Measures of Variability
Chapter 6: Relationships Between Two Variables: Cross-Tabulation
Chapter 8: Regression and Correlation
Chapter 11: Estimation
Chapter 12: Testing Hypotheses
Chapter 13: The Chi-Square Test
Chapter 14: Analysis of Variance