SUNY College at Buffalo Department of Sociology

Soc 300W: Methods in Social Research

Study Guide 4

Dr. Zhang Jie

CHAPTER 14: QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS

I. Quantification of data

A. Developing code categories

B. Codebook construction

C. Data Entry

II. Univariate Analysis

A. Distributions

B. Central tendency

C. Dispersion

D. Continuous and discrete variables

E. Detail versus manageability

III. Bivariate Analysis

A. Percentaging a table

B. Constructing and reading bivariate tables

IV. Introduction to Multivariate Analysis

CHAPTER 16: SOCIAL STATISTICS

I. Descriptive Statistics

A. Data reduction

B. Measures of association

1. Nominal variables

2. Ordinal variables

3. Interval or ratio variables

C. Regression analysis

1. Linear regression

2. Multiple regression

3. Partial regression

4. Curvilinear regression

II. Inferential Statistics

A. Univariate inferences

B. Tests of statistical significance

C. The logic of statistical significance

D. Chi square

III. Other Multivariate Techniques

A. Path analysis

B. Factor analysis

C. Analysis of variance

1. One-way analysis of variance

2. Two-way analysis of variance

D. Geographic information systems (GIS)