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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Life In A Data-laden Age: Finding And Managing Datasets -- The Art Of Visual Storytelling: Creating Accurate Tables And Graphs -- Summarizing Center And Diversity: Basic Descriptive Statistics -- Using Sample Crosstabs To Talk About Populations: The Chi-square Test -- Using A Sample Mean Or Proportion To Talk About A Population: Confidence Intervals -- Using Multiple Sample Means To Talk About Populations: T-tests And Anova -- Give Me One Good Reason Why: Bivariate Correlation And Regression -- Using Sample Slopes To Talk About Populations: Inference And Regression -- It's All Relative: Dichotomies As Independent Variables In Regression -- Above And Beyond: The Logic Of Controlling And The Power Of Nested Regression Models -- Some Slopes Are Bigger Than Others: Calculating And Interpreting Beta Coefficients -- Different Slopes For Different Folks: Interaction Effects -- Explaining Dichotomous Outcomes: Logistic Regression -- Visualizing Causal Stories: Path Analysis -- Questioning The Greatness Of Straightness: Nonlinear Relationships -- Problems And Prospects: Regression Diagnostics, Advanced Techniques, And Where To Go Now -- Appendix A: Variables And Indexes From The American National Election Studies, The World Values Survey, And Three Surveys From The Pew Internet And American Life Project -- Appendix B: Eighty-six Articles That Use Statistics In Less Than Scary Ways -- Appendix C: Statistical Tables -- Appendix D: Answers To Selected End-of-chapter Exercises -- Bibliography -- Glossary/index. By Thomas J. Linneman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.