Excerpt from On-Line Analysis for Social Scientists As stated previously, the primary objective was to provide working social scientists with a library of analytical (mostly statistical) routines for investigating real-world data. Since data collected by social scientists typically do not satisfy all of the assumptions re quired to justify parametric statistical analyses, a large number of the routines are non - parametric or distribution-free in nature. A second related objective was to orient the routines both in strue ture and in input/output language toward the working social scientist's point of view. Specifically, this means four things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.