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.
· Meaning functions and abuse of statistics in social work research
· Frequency distribution types and shapes of distribution
· Proportions, percentage and ratios
· Measures of Variability-Variation Ratio, Index of Qualitative Variation
· Criteria for selecting useful variability measure.
· Association: Meaning, Characteristics, Degree, Direction and Nature.
· Software for Higher Statistical Analysis : SPSS and its Applications.
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§ 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.