policy and developmental social welfare services • Part 2: Using Evidence to shape transformative social welfare policy • Chapter 5: Demographic contexts and social and economic challenges in social welfare policy • Chapter 6: Poverty, inequalities, risk and vulnerability and social welfare policy responses • Chapter 7: Social welfare policy as a response to risks and vulnerabilities of families in South Africa • Chapter 8: Transformational policies and social justice for migrants, refugees and displaced people • Part 3: Making social welfare policy • Chapter 9: Policy analysis and formulation: using a human rights approach • Chapter 10: Social welfare policy and transformational participatory processes in South Africa • Part 4: Working with and Transforming social welfare policy • Chapter 11: The role of the social worker as policy implementer and advocate in South Africa • Chapter 12: Statutory role in diff erent social welfare focus areas • Chapter 13: Monitoring and evaluation: impact and outcomes • Chapter 14: Lessons of experience in transforming social welfare policy in Africa
STATISTICS
Statistics for the Social Sciences using Excel®: A fi rst course for South African students Authors: G Davis, B Pecar, L Santana and A Burke
Statistics for the Social Sciences using Excel® off ers an excellent and helpful introduction to business statistics for students who require a fi rst course, providing all of the explanations, tools, and skills which are required in order to master the subject matter. Thorough, clear and accessible, the text guides students in a progressive, step-by-step manner through the theoretical concepts and techniques, and supports understanding by providing extensive examples from a South African context. The text assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, and includes refresher Chapters on numerical skills and Microsoft Excel®.
This text is eminently suitable as a fi rst course in statistics for students who are studying the subject as a module within any social science-based programme of study.
Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction • Chapter 2: Visualizing and presenting data • Chapter 3: Data descriptors • Chapter 4: Probability concepts • Chapter 5: Random variables • Chapter 6: Discreet probability distributions • Chapter 7: Continuous probability distributions • Chapter 8: Sampling and sampling distributions • Chapter 9: Estimation • Chapter 10: Hypotheses testing: one population/Sample • Chapter 11: Hypotheses testing: two populations/ Samples • Chapter 12: Linear correlation and regression analysis • Chapter 13: Time series data and analysis • Chapter 14: Chi-square and non-parametric hypothesis testing • Chapter 15: Factorial experiments • Appendix A: Numerical skills revision • Appendix B: Introduction to Microsoft Excel
PAPERBACK AUG 2014 OUP SA
544 PAGES 9780199051830 9780199077373
SOCIAL SCIENCES: STATISTICS
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