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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 Presentation
Chapter 4 and 5: Measures of Central Tendency and Measures of Variability
Chapter 8: Estimation
Chapter 9: Testing Hypotheses
Chapter 10: Relationships Between Two Variables: Cross-Tabulation
Chapter 11: The Chi-Square Test
Chapter 13: Regression and Correlation