The course plan aims to provide the students with a comprehensive understanding of quantitative data analysis. The course provides exposure to the students to use of statistical package in social sciences.
3.00
Meaning functions and abuse of statistics in social work research
Frequency distribution types and shapes of distribution
3.00
Proportions, percentage and ratios
Measures of Variability-Variation Ratio, Index of Qualitative Variation
Criteria for selecting useful variability measure.
3.00
Association: Meaning, Characteristics, Degree, Direction and Nature.
3.00
Inferential Statistics
Normal Curve :Meaning and Characteristics
Area under Normal Curve, Transforming raw scores to Z scores.
Software for Higher Statistical Analysis : SPSS and its Applications.
References:
Wright, Susan E. 1986 Social Science Statistics. Boston: Allyn & Bacon Inc.
Loether, H.J. & McTavish, Donald. 1974 Inferential Statistics for Sociologists.
Boston: Allyn & Bacon Inc.
Kurtz, Norman R. 1983 Introduction to Social Statistics. Paris: McGraw-Hill Book Co.
Elifson et al. 1990 Fundamentals of Social Statistics. McGraw Hill Publishing Co.
Levin, Jack .1983 Elementary Statistics in Social Research. New York: Harper & Row Publishers
Cohen, Louis & Holliday, Michael. 1982 Statistics for Social Scientists. New York: Harper & Row Publishers
Malec, Michael, A. 1977 Essential Statistics for Social Research. New York: J.B.Lippincott Co.
Ahuja. Ram. 2006, Research Methods, Rawat Publications.