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Full of practical advice and real-world examples, this step-by-step guide offers you an accessible introduction to doing quantitative social research using Microsoft Excel.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Planning and Undertaking a Research Project in the Social Sciences
Chapter 3: Selecting, Evaluating and Cleaning Data Using Microsoft Excel
Chapter 4: Getting Familiar with your Data Using Microsoft Excel
Chapter 5: Exploring Bivariate Relationships: Crosstabulations and Chi-Square
Chapter 6: Exploring Bivariate Relationships: T-Tests and Non-parametric Equivalents
Chapter 7: Exploring Bivariate Relationships: Correlation
Chapter 8: Exploring Multivariate Relationships: Linear Regression
Chapter 9: Bringing it all Together: Writing and Presenting Research
