GOALS OF THE BOOK ARE TO SHOW HOW SOCIAL STATISTICS MAY BE USED AS A PRACTICAL RESEARCH DEVICE AND AS AN ANALYTICAL TOOL FOR EXAMINING QUANTITATIVE DATA AND TO TEACH SOCIOLOGISTS HOW TO CONDUCT RESEARCH. THE TEXT BEGINS WITH A GENERAL DISCUSSION OF THE APPLICATION AND LIMITATIONS OF STATISTICS IN SOCIAL RESEARCH. NEXT, EACH OF THE BOOK'S SIX MAJOR SECTION DEALS WITH AN ASPECT OF STATISTICS WHICH IS UNIQUE IN CHARACTERISTICS AND APPLICATIONS. A SECTION ON CLASSIFICATORY DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS DISCUSSES CLASSIFICATION AND MEASUREMENT IN SOCIAL RESEARCH AS WELL AS MEASUREMENT AND CROSS-CLASSIFICATION. THE SECTION ON UNIVARIATE DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS DISCUSSES MEASURING CENTRAL TENDENCY AND MEASURING VARIABILITY. CHAPTERS ON BIVARIATE DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS FOCUS ON ASSOCIATION BETWEEN TWO NOMINAL OR ORDINAL VARIABLES, PREDICTION AND REGRESSION WITH TWO INTERVAL VARIABLES. THE SECTION ON MULTIVARIATE DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS INCLUDE CHAPTERS ON PARTIAL ASSOCIATION FOR NOMINAL OR ORDINAL VARIABLES, PARTIAL AND MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION, AND PARTIAL AND MULTIPLE CORRELATION. THE SECTION ON INFERENTIAL STATISTICS INCLUDES CHAPTERS ON HYPOTHESIS TESTING, COMPARISONS, TESTS, AND ESTIMATES, AND MEASURING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN STATISTICS. THE SECTION ON MULTIVARIATE CAUSAL ANALYSIS STATISTICS PRESENTS ANALYSIS AND THEORY CONSTRUCTION, PATH ANALYSIS, AND SURVEY ANALYSIS. EXERCISES FOR EACH CHAPTER, EXTENSIVE FIGURES AND TABLES, FOOTNOTES, AND INDEX, AND AN APPENDIX PRESENTING STATISTICAL TABLES, ARE INCLUDED. (CFW)