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By making introductory statistics interesting through comparing data on today’s student generation with their parents’ generation, and asking students to consider how people change as they grow older, the book uses data on subjective beliefs (such as freedom of speech and abortion) as well objective characteristics (years of schooling, marital status) to teach basic statistics using SPSS.
Pearson’s Correlation and Bivariate Regression
Pearson’s Correlation and Bivariate Regression
In this chapter, you can learn
- how the strength and direction of an association between two interval/ratio variables can be described by a single number,
- how the relationship between two interval/ratio variables can be illustrated on a two-dimensional graph,
- how the equation for a straight line can summarize that relationship between interval/ ratio variables,
- how that straight-line equation can be used to predict a case’s score on the dependent variable, and
- how a single number can indicate how well an independent variable does in explaining the variation among cases on the dependent variable.
Education, Spouse’s Education, and Income
In this chapter, we consider the following questions:
- Do opposites really attract when it comes to schooling and marriage? Looking first at the parents of the 1980 GSS twentysomethings, ...
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