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Authors: Robert W. Weinbach, Richard M. Grinnell
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
Edition: 6
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.6 x 0.6

ISBN: 0205375987
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.5024362
EAN: 9780205375981
ASIN: 0205375987

Publication Date: March 18, 2003
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Condition: as pictured, used stickers, some shelf wear, minor edge wear,writing, and notes

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Book Description
It includes numerous social work practice examples, and discusses types of statistical analyses that are most likely to be encountered by social work practitioners and researchers, but assumes no prior experience with statistics. This edition has been reorganized and updated, with new content added on statistical power, effect size, and measures of association. New topics have been incorporated, including logistic regression and other methods of analysis not in prior editions. New figures and new content on sampling distributions and standard scores (z-scores) have also been added. For anyone interested in research methods and social work.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars

It'll do March 14, 2007
We used this book in conjunction with the SPSS manual and software. Even though this book did disappoint at times (what text book doesn't really) it did prove useful as a reference book and supplemented the SPSS manual nicely.

1 out of 5 stars

The WORST Statistics book ever written. May 23, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

I have a PhD. in Social Work, and can positively say this book was no help to anyone in my class. The words couldn't be muddier and the paragraphs clunkier. It has the feel of a paper revised so much that it's lost any meaning, as though the author sat with an open thesaurus and exchanged what might have been a fine word for some other word, at every third word. It reads like an eighth grader found a thesaurus and strung sentences together hoping to gain some recognition, or hastily jotted lecture notes at the moment, or a vaguely intelligible and dull alien script.

It is a shame that bright students might be introduced to the subject by this book, and they, if weren't bright, would think they couldn't understand the subject, when in fact the blame falls on the shoulders of the authors. If the authors had decided to write such a book, why make it such a tangled mess?

As you read the text, an important term, such as "Operationalization," changes its meaning according to the authors' whims, so the student is left nonplussed as to what the word means. When the students looks in the glossary, he finds "Conceptualization," which, like "Operationalization," is given several paragraphs to define; however, one, and not the other, can be found in the glossary.

The authors wrote, "Specifying...is the process called Operationalization." Then, later, wrote, "...specifying how we will operationalize..." which of course translates to specifying.

My students resigned themselves to looking up the terms on Wikipedia for a clearer explanation.

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