Compassionate Statistics

Statistics for Social Services: Examples and Exercises will provide a comprehensive, yet pragmatic, resource for social service professionals to use standard descriptive and inferential statistical techniques in ways that are meaningful to them, to their social agencies, to their funding sources, and, ultimately, to their clientsnsumers. In short, it will appeal to those learning to be consumers rather than serious generators of statistics. The book will be designed as a companion manual to mainstream methods textbooks; it will actively involve the learner by offering practice-relevant material.