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Social Statistics
Better than Very Good, approaching Near Fine. See scans and description. New McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1979. Social Statistics (McGraw-Hill Series in Sociology), by Hubert M. Blalock, Jr. ISBN 0070057524. Octavo, red cloth boards, white and yellow imprinting on cover and spine, table front endpapers, 639 pp. (xiv + 625). Very Good, plus some; approaching Near Fine. SLight spine lean, corners lightly touched, and a stray ink mark on dedication. See scans. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. LT29
- GenresSociology
592 pages, Hardcover
First published July 1, 1972
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December 17, 2020
nudne strasznie ale przynajmniej przedmiot zaliczony
August 2, 2009
This was the favored statistics text of the Penn Sociology Department. The instruction was poor but the text was catastrophically bad, about 4 questions at the end of each chapter. To answer any one of them you had to have a complete mastery of the material, but this was impossible for me without working a lot of problems. A complete waste of time.
There was a tradition at Penn at the end of the semester to take your most hated text book and put on the sidewalk in the men's dorms under the gaze of the life size bronze statue of Reverend Winfield and set the book on fire. Usually what we saw there was a 5" thick chemisty text put there by some frustrated pre med student. I should have put my copy of Blalock there. If your professor does not use Hamburg's book, find someone who does.
There was a tradition at Penn at the end of the semester to take your most hated text book and put on the sidewalk in the men's dorms under the gaze of the life size bronze statue of Reverend Winfield and set the book on fire. Usually what we saw there was a 5" thick chemisty text put there by some frustrated pre med student. I should have put my copy of Blalock there. If your professor does not use Hamburg's book, find someone who does.
April 19, 2010
I have the second edition of this classic textbook in statistics. What I find so interesting is how dated it now seems. With statistical software, statistics is taught differently than when the second edition was "state of the art," one of the respected texts in social science statistics. Back in the day, when I taught statistics, I used this to inform development of lectures and presentation of material.
Revisiting this book is a kind of exercise in nostalgia. . . .
Revisiting this book is a kind of exercise in nostalgia. . . .
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