Social Statistics: A Text Using MicroCase

This is the only complete package for the introductory social statistics course. The fourth edition of the textbook is accompanied by a powerful version of Student MicroCase, research-quality data sets, a comprehensive set of workbook exercises, and hundreds of other enhancements. The textbook is a friendly introduction to social statistics, emphasizing both the fundamental principles that underlie statistics and the practical applications of statistics to real data. The writing style is conversational without being chatty, with an emphasis on anxiety relief. William Fox explains topics in a clear and simple manner, and prepares students to use social statistics in their everyday lives.

This text/workbook/disk/CD-ROM package teaches statistics to students in social sciences and related disciplines such as criminal justice and education, starting with methods for analyzing only one variable at a time and progressing through three or more variables at a time. The accompanying workbook invites students to do calculations by hand before performing computer analyses, with cases and exercises relying on real data from sources such as the US Census and the General Social Survey. The companion software contains a student version of MicroCase and data sets. This fourth edition uses updated and expanded data sets and incorporates a new version of the MicroCase software. Fox teaches sociology at Skidmore College. Annotation c. Book News, Inc.,Portland, OR

William Fox is chair of the Sociology Department at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. He emphasizes social issues and analysis of both large-scale social institutions and small-scale social interaction in all his courses. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1971. His interests include statistics; social change; folklore; and sociology of culture.