SOCIAL STATISTICS (MA 1)

                                                    DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

                                                                      UNIVERSITY OF BALOCHISTAN

                                                                                SOC 605 (CORE)

SOCIAL STATISTICS                                                                                                                                 CREDIT   HOURS: 3

Objectives of the Course

The purpose of this course is to provide the students with a background in statistical principles so that they become proficient user of statistical analysis. The students will learn how to describe data effectively, to run a simple regression, and to interpret the results.. 

Descriptive statistics is the art of summarizing data. Topics include: frequency distribution, Average, the standard deviation and correlation. Statistical Inference is the art of making valid generalizations from samples. Topics include: estimation, measurement error, tests of statistical significance

COURSE CONTENT

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Meaning And Definition Of Social Statistics

1.2 Functions and its importance in daily life

1.3 Use Of Statistics In Modern Sociology

1.4 Descriptive And Inferential Statistics

1.5 Grouped And UnGrouped Data

1.6 Frequency Distribution

2. MEASURE OF CENTRAL TENDENCY

2.1 The Basic Concept of an Average

2.2 Arithmetic Mean

2.3 Median

2.4 Mode

3. MEASURE OF DISPERSION

3.1 Range

3.2 Mean deviation

3.3 Standard deviation

3.4 Variance

4. COEFFICIENT OF CORRELATION

4.1 Meaning of correlation

4.2 Methods and forms of correlation

4.3 Pearson’s correlation

4.4 Rank order correlation

5. THE CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Definition of chi-square

5.3 Chi-square test requirements and its application in sociological research

5.4 Contingency table

5.5 Testing hypothesis of independence in contingency tables

Recommended Books

1. Blalock Hubert M. Jr. (1988) Social Statistics, Tokyo: McGraw Hill Book,

Company.Kogakusha, Ltd. (International Students Edition)

2. Brace, Charles Heury and Brase, CorrinneFellillo (1978) Understandable Statistics,

Concepts and Methods, Massachusetts: D.C. Health and Company.

3. Byrkit, Donald R. (1972). Elements of Statistics. An Introduction to Probability and

Statistical Inference, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company.

4. Edward, Allen L. (1966) Statistical Methods for Behavioural Sciences, New York:

Rinerhart and Company, Inc.

5. Elifson, Kirk W., Richard P. Runyon and Audrey Haber,(1990) Fundamentals of Social

Statistics, (2nd, eds.) Singapore: McGraw Hill., Book Company Inc.

6. Hagood, M.J. and Deniel, Price O. (1962) Statistics for Sociologists, Tokoyo: Heury Holt

and Con.

6. Hagood, Margaret Jarman and Price Daniel O., Statistics for Sociologists (Revised

edition), New York: Holt, Rinehart and W