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The Data Analyst’s Guide to Cause and Effect
An Introduction to Causal Inference in Practice
Av Theiss Bendixen, Benjamin Grant Purzycki
Häftad, 2027
810 kr
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The Data Analyst's Guide to Cause and Effect offers a clear, practical roadmap built around the EEESI workflow—Estimand, Estimator, Estimate, Simulation-based Inference. This book provides a systematic approach to defining, estimating, and validating causal effects, allowing readers to learn to …
Latent Class Scaling Analysis
Av C. (Chauncey) Mitchell Dayton
Häftad, 1999
715 kr
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Filled with well-chosen empirical examples to teach the technique, this book provides a thorough guide to latent class scaling models for binary response variables. Substantive illustrations include a survey on academic cheating, children's mastery of spatial tasks, medical diagnosis of lung …
Statistical Graphics for Univariate and Bivariate Data
Häftad, 1997
690 kr
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Author William G. Jacoby focuses on graphical displays that researchers can employ as an integral part of the data analysis process. Such visual depictions are frequently more revealing than traditional, numerical summary statistics. Accessibly written, this book contains chapters on univariate and …
Odds Ratios in the Analysis of Contingency Tables
Häftad, 1998
715 kr
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This volume shows how odds ratios can be used as a framework for understanding log-linear models. Tightly organized, the book moves systematically from the paradigmatic 2x2 case to more complicated cases. Author Tamas Rudas carefully defines the odds ratio and demonstrates how it is a measure of …
Statistical Graphics for Visualizing Multivariate Data
Häftad, 1998
715 kr
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Author William G. Jacoby explores a variety of graphical displays that are useful for visualizing multivariate data. The basic problem involves representing information that varies along several dimensions when the display medium (a computer screen or printed page) is inherently two-dimensional. In …
Game Theory Topics
Incomplete Information, Repeated Games and N-Player Games
Av Evelyn C. Fink, Scott Gates m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
715 kr
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Game theory, particularly the use of repeated games, N-person games, and incomplete information games have been popular research techniques in political science, sociology, and managementùbut difficult for new social researchers to useùuntil now. Aimed at making these topics accessible to all …
Applied Correspondence Analysis
An Introduction
Av Sten Erik Clausen, Sten Erik Clausen
Häftad, 1998
715 kr
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This volume provides readers with a simple, non-technical introduction to correspondence analysis (CA), a technique for summarily describing the relationships among categorical variables in large tables. It begins with the history and logic of CA, followed by an explanation of the analysis of large …
Interaction Effects in Factorial Analysis of Variance
Av James Jaccard, James J. Jaccard
Häftad, 1998
715 kr
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Although factorial analysis is widely used in the social sciences, there is some confusion as to how to use the techniqueÆs most powerful featureùthe evaluation of interaction effects. Written to remedy this situation, author James Jaccard clearly describes the issues underlying the effective …
Social Choice
Theory and Research
Häftad, 1998
715 kr
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Author Paul E. Johnson introduces researchers to the key questions, concepts, terminology, methods, and results of social choice theory, a method of aggregating individualÆs preferences into societal preferences (such as voting). By presenting technical details from the ôground up,ö Johnson first …
Neural Networks
Av Hervé Abdi, Dominique Valentin m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
690 kr
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Neural Networks have influenced many areas of research but have only just started to be utilized in social science research. Neural Networks provides the first accessible introduction to this analysis as a powerful method for social scientists. It provides numerous studies and examples that …
Relating Statistics and Experimental Design
An Introduction
Häftad, 1999
715 kr
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This handy guide gives the novice researcher a clear description of the standard tools of the trade. Unlike some texts which focus on either design or statistics, this book covers the fundamentals of design, together with experiments and observational methods. There is an exposition of major tests …
Effect Size for ANOVA Designs
Av José M. Cortina, Hossein Nouri
Häftad, 1999
715 kr
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Researchers have been complaining about the lack of one single place to find information on computing effect sizes in analysis of variance (ANOVA), until now. Authors Jose M. Cortina and Hossein Nouri begin with a literature review of previous treatments of the topic (including corrections to the …
Nonparametric Simple Regression
Smoothing Scatterplots
Av John Fox
Häftad, 2000
690 kr
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While regression analysis traces the dependence of the distribution of a response variable to see if it bears a particular (linear) relationship to one or more of the predictors, nonparametric regression analysis makes minimal assumptions about the form of relationship between the average response …
Analyzing Documentary Accounts
Av Randy Dale Hodson, Randy Dale Hodson
Häftad, 1999
715 kr
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Although ethnographic evidence has accumulated in fields ranging from organizational studies to sociology, these studies have not been fully exploited except as sources of descriptive data. Analyzing Documentary Accounts provides researchers with complete guidelines from mining ethnographic data …
Translating Questionnaires and Other Research Instruments
Problems and Solutions
Av Orlando Behling, Kenneth S. Law m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
690 kr
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This book covers the essential information needed to understand the problems involved in translating existing questionnaires and other paper-and-pencil instruments from one language to another as well as to apply methods for dealing with them. It shows researchers how to identify the problems …
An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models
Av George Henry Dunteman, Moon-Ho R. Ho
Häftad, 2005
715 kr
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Do you have data that is not normally distributed and don't know how to analyze it using generalized linear models (GLM)? Beginning with a discussion of fundamental statistical modeling concepts in a multiple regression framework, the authors extend these concepts to GLM (including Poisson …
Multiple and Generalized Nonparametric Regression
Häftad, 2000
715 kr
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This book builds on John Fox's previous volume in the QASS Series, Non Parametric Simple Regression. In this monograph readers learn to estimate and plot smooth functions when there are multiple independent variables. While regression analysis traces the dependence of the distribution of a response …
Interaction Effects in Logistic Regression
Häftad, 2001
715 kr
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This book provides an introduction to the analysis of interaction effects in logistic regression by focusing on the interpretation of the coefficients of interactive logistic models for a wide range of situations encountered in the research literature. The volume is oriented toward the applied …
Applied Logistic Regression Analysis
Av Scott Menard
Häftad, 2001
690 kr
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The focus in this Second Edition is again on logistic regression models for individual level data, but aggregate or grouped data are also considered. The book includes detailed discussions of goodness of fit, indices of predictive efficiency, and standardized logistic regression coefficients, and …
Longitudinal Research
Av Scott Menard
Häftad, 2002
715 kr
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Written in non-technical language, this popular and practical volume has been completely updated to bring readers the latest advice on major issues involved in longitudinal research. It covers: research design strategies; methods of data collection; and how longitudinal and cross-sectional research …
Cohort Analysis
Häftad, 2005
690 kr
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Cohort Analysis, Second Edition covers the basics of the cohort approach to studying aging, social, and cultural change. This volume also critiques several commonly used (but flawed) methods of cohort analysis, illustrates appropriate methods, and describes the major sources of suitable data for …
Correlation
Parametric and Nonparametric Measures
Av Peter Y. Chen, Paula M. Popovich
Häftad, 2002
690 kr
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Correlations, in general, and the Pearson product-moment correlation in particular, can be used for many research purposes, ranging from describing a relationship between two variables as a descriptive statistic to examining a relationship between two variables in a population as an inferential …
Logit and Probit
Ordered and Multinomial Models
Häftad, 2002
715 kr
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This book discusses the estimation, simulation, and interpretation of models with multiple outcomes, when these outcomes are either ordered or unordered, against the backdrop of examples relating to socioeconomic inequality. The book includes exposition of the important distinction between …
Spline Regression Models
Av Lawrence C. Marsh, David R. Cormier
Häftad, 2001
715 kr
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Spline Regression Models shows the nuts-and-bolts of using dummy variables to formulate and estimate various spline regression models. For some researchers this will involve situations where the number and location of the spline knots are known in advance, while others will need to determine the …
Fixed Effects Regression Models
Häftad, 2009
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690 kr
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This book demonstrates how to estimate and interpret fixed-effects models in a variety of different modeling contexts: linear models, logistic models, Poisson models, Cox regression models, and structural equation models. Both advantages and disadvantages of fixed-effects models will be considered, …
Confidence Intervals
Häftad, 2003
715 kr
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Smithson first introduces the basis of the confidence interval framework and then provides the criteria for "best" confidence intervals, along with the trade-offs between confidence and precision. Next, using a reader-friendly style with lots of worked out examples from various disciplines, he …
Probability Theory
A Primer
Häftad, 2004
715 kr
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Aimed at demystifying probability theory, this text provides a brief and non-technical introduction to the subject. Employing few formulas, Rudas uses intuitive but precise descriptions and examples to explain procedures in probability as a springboard for understanding the concepts of expectation, …
Internet Data Collection
Av Samuel J. Best, Brian S. Krueger
Häftad, 2004
690 kr
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Designed for researchers and students alike, the volume describes how to perform each stage of the data collection process on the Internet, including sampling, instrument design, and administration. Through the use of non-technical prose and illustrations, it details the options available, …
Interaction Effects in Multiple Regression
Av James Jaccard, Robert Turrisi
Häftad, 2003
701 kr
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Interaction Effects in Multiple Regression has provided students and researchers with a readable and practical introduction to conducting analyses of interaction effects in the context of multiple regression. The new addition will expand the coverage on the analysis of three way interactions in …
Fuzzy Set Theory
Applications in the Social Sciences
Av Michael Smithson, Jay Verkuilen
Häftad, 2006
715 kr
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Fuzzy set theory deals with sets or categories whose boundaries are blurry or, in other words, "fuzzy." This book presents an accessible introduction to fuzzy set theory, focusing on its applicability to the social sciences. Unlike most books on this topic, Fuzzy Set Theory: Applications in the …
