InhaltsangabePreface.- List of Symbols.- Contents.- List of Figures.- List of Tables.- Introduction.- Overview of Research Process.- Data and Its Acquisition.- Summarizing Data with Descriptive Statistics.- Probability Theory.- Statistical Inference.- Statistical Approaches for Nominal Data.- Comparing Means Across Multiple Groups.- Correlation and Simple Regression.- Introduction to Multiple Regression.- Presenting Results of Statistical Analysis.- Conclusion.- Statistical Tables.- Answers to Selected Exercises.- References.- Index.

Scott M. Lynch is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research at Princeton University.  His substantive research interests are in changes in racial and socioeconomic inequalities in health and mortality across age and time, as well as in understanding the sources of regional disparities in health in the U.S.  His methodological interests are in the application of Bayesian statistics and estimation methods to problems that cannot be easily addressed with classical statistical methods in sociology and demography.