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5 Managing a Data Base 50
Working with Program Packages 50
Correcting Errors 53
Modifying the Data 55
Linking Records 58
6 Data, Information, and Statistics 63
Statistical Reasoning 64
Drawing a Sample 68
Levels of Measurement 74
Statistical Hypothesis Testing 76
7 Statistics for Questions about One Variable 82
Descriptive Statistics 83
Inferential Statistics 98
Software Notes 102
8 Statistics for Questions about Two Variables 104
Nominal Dependent Variables 105
Ordinal Dependent Variables 112
Continuous Dependent Variables 118
A Continuous Dependent and a Categorical Inde-
pendent Variable 		126
A Continuous Independent and a Categorical De-
pendent Variable 		132
A Continuous Independent and an Ordinal Depen-
dent Variable 		136
Software Notes 138

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Publication Information: Book Title: Quantitative Methods for Historians: A Guide to Research, Data, and Statistics. Contributors: Konrad H. Jarausch - author, Kenneth A. Hardy - author. Publisher: University of North Carolina Press. Place of Publication: Chapel Hill, NC. Publication Year: 1991. Page Number: vi.
    
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