new statistical books

Event History Analysis : Regression for Longitudinal Event Data (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
By Paul D. Allison


Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Number Of Pages: 88
Publication Date: 1984-11-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0803920555
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780803920552
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:


Drawing on recent "event history" analytical methods from biostatistics, engineering, and sociology, this clear and comprehensive monograph explains how longitudinal data can be used to study the causes of deaths, crimes, wars, and many other human events.

Allison shows why ordinary multiple regression is not suited to analysis of event history data, and demonstrates how innovative regression - like methods can overcome this problem. He then discusses the particular new methods -- illustrating each with detailed empirical examples -- that social scientists should find useful, and shows how even complex data structures can be investigate


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Multiattribute Evaluation (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
By J. Robert Newman, Ward Edwards


Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: 1982-10-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0803900953
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780803900950
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:

Ward Edwards and J. Robert Newman clearly explain Multiattribute Utility Technology (MAUT), a technique that facilitates decision making by identifying and weighting the objectives of the stakeholders in a specific decision.

Magnitude Scaling: Quantitative Measurement of Opinions (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
By Milton Lodge


Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Number Of Pages: 88
Publication Date: 1981-09-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0803917473
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780803917477
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:

Describes the techniques and rationale behind magnitude scaling that can provide the researcher with greater accuracy in gauging the strength of opinions, attitudes, and social judgments by providing the respondent with continuous response measures

Multiple Attribute Decision Making: An Introduction (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
By K . Paul Yoon, Ching-Lai Hwang


Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Number Of Pages: 83
Publication Date: 1995-01-17
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0803954867
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780803954861
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:

Multiple attribute decision making (MADM) procedures, a process for making preference decisions over the available alternatives which are characterized by multiple (usually conflicting) attributes are useful for improving decision making in a wide range of circumstances--from professional to managerial to political. Using real-world case examples, the authors introduce the reader to normative (for optimal decisions) MADM models. Beginning in chapter 2 with and introductions to the various attributes in a decision, the authors explore how MADM methods can be used for descriptive purposes to model the existing decision-making process, noncompensatory and scoring methods, accommodation of soft data, construction of a multiple decision support system, and the validity of methods. The authors also include a presentation of the advanced procedures of TOPSIS and ELECTRE. This manual offers social scientists an encapsulated view of MADM methods, their characteristics, applicability, and the methods for solving MADM problems.

Causal Modeling (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
By Herbert B. Asher


Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: 1983-01-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0803906544
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780803906549
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:

Retains complete coverage of the first edition, while amplifying key areas such as direct/indirect effects, standardized/unstandardized variables, multicollinie-arity, and nonrecursive modeling.

onparametric Statistics: An Introduction (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
By Jean D. Gibbons


Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: 1992-10-07
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0803939515
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780803939516
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:


"Nonparametric Statistics is a short and sweet introduction to the five most familiar nonparametric location tests and associated confidence intervals and multiple comparisons. . . . This book is extremely limited in coverage, but none the worse for that. You won’t find anything on the Fisher Exact Test, or measures of association for the cases covered. What you will find is good, accurate, comprehensible accounts of location tests for two or more treatments. . . . The book is well-written throughout, with fewer than expected mistakes. . . . All in all, a good basic introduction to nonparametric tests, with few frills, as you would expect. The computer package comparisons sound very useful warning bells and are a welcome frill."

--British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

Using actual research investigations that have appeared in recent social science journals, Jean Dickinson Gibbons shows you the specific methodology and logical rationale for many of the best-known and most frequently used nonparametric methods (that are applicable for most small and large sample sizes). The methods are organized according to the type of sample structure that produced the data, and the inference types covered are limited to location tests, such as the sign test, the Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test, the Kruskal-Wallis test, and Friedman’s test. Formal introductions to each test are followed by a data example, calculated first by hand and then by computer.

Analytic Mapping and Geographic Databases (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
By G Garson, Robert S. Biggs


Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: 1992-06-11
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0803947526
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780803947528
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:

Nearly 80% of the informational needs of local government policymakers are related to geographic location. As a result, the techniques of analytic mapping (the study of the dynamic diffusion and distribution of any variable across area and over time) and of geographic information systems (GIS) have become increasingly important tools for analyzing census, crime, environmental and consumer data. The authors of this significant little volume discuss data access, transformation and preparation issues, and how to select the appropriate analytic graphics techniques through a review of various GIS and common data sources: census products, TIGER files, and CD-ROM access. Garson and Biggs describe each procedure, review its assumptions and requirements, and provide illustrative output for sample data using selected software. Researchers and administrators who need to manage data of geographic locations will find Analytic Mapping and Geographic Databases a useful guide for systems storing, retrieving, analyzing, and displaying this information.

Bayesian Statistical Inference (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
By Gudmund R. Iversen


Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Number Of Pages: 80
Publication Date: 1984-11-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0803923287
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780803923287
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:

The theoretical importance of Bayesian inference, if not its practical validity, are generally acknowledged; but a reason for the lag in applications is that empirical researchers have lacked a grounding in the methodology. Iversen's volume provides this introduction.


After outlining the limitations of classical statistical inference, the author proceeds through a simple example to explain Bayes' theorem and how it may overcome these limitations. Typical Bayesian applications are shown, together with the strengths and weaknesses of the Bayesian approach.


An understanding of Bayesian inference places the hypothesis testing and confidence intervals used by classical statistical inference in clearer perspective. This monograph thus serves as a companion volume for Henkel's Tests of Significance (QASS vol 4).

Statistical Graphics for Visualizing Multivariate Data (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
By William George Jacoby


Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: 1998-02-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0761908994
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780761908999
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:

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 order to address this problem, Jacoby introduces the concepts of a "data space." He then explains several methods for coding information directly into the plotting symbols used to represent the observations. He next describes pictorial representations of three-dimensional space followed by a discussion of the scatterplot matrix as a way of "flattening out" the multiple dimensions of a multivariate data space. In addition, he examines conditioning plots (which are strategies for "looking into subregions" of the multidimensional data space), and presents the biplot as a technique for showing observations and variables together in a single display. He concludes with a discussion of some general ideas about data visualization. Statistical Graphics for Visualizing Multivariate Data will enable researchers to better explore the contents of a dataset, find the structure in their data, check the underlying assumptions of the statistical model they used, and better communicate the results of their analysis.

Analyzing Decision Making: Metric Conjoint Analysis (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
By Jordan J. Louviere


Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: 1988-03-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0803927576
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780803927575
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:


This volume introduces the theory, method, and applications of one type of conjoint analysis technique. These techniques are used to study individual judgement and decision processes and forecast the chosen behavior of individuals or the populations they represent. Although conjoint analysis has so far been used chiefly by those seeking to explain consumer behavior in the marketplace, it is a method that can easily be applied to other kinds of decisionmaking.

Based upon Information Integration Theory, metric conjoint analysis allows for evaluation of multi-attribute alternatives based on interval level data. The model, which justifies use of metric conjoint methods and the statistical techniques drawn from it, constitute the core of this monograph. Also described are applications of the model in marketing, psychology, economics, sociology, planning, and other disciplines, all of which relate to forecasting the decision-making behavior of individuals.

Tree Models of Similarity and Association (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
By James E. Corter


Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Number Of Pages: 72
Publication Date: 1996-04-02
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0803957076
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780803957077
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:

Clustering and tree models are widely used in the social and biological sciences to analyze similarity relations. Tree Models of Similarity and Association describes how matrices of similarities or associations among entities can be modeled using trees, and to explain some of the issues that arise in performing such analyses and correctly interpreting the results. James E. Corter clearly distinguishes ultrametric trees (fit by the techniques widely known as "hierarchical clustering") from additive trees and discusses how specific aspects of each type of tree can be interpreted through the use of applications as examples. He concludes with a discussion of when tree models might be preferable to spatial geometric models, such as those fit by multidimensional scaling (MDS) or principal components analysis (PCA).

Canonical Correlation Analysis: Uses and Interpretation (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
By Bruce Thompson


Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Number Of Pages: 72
Publication Date: 1984-11-01
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0803923929
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780803923928
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:


Recent advances in statistical methodology and computer automation are making canonical correlation analysis available to more and more researchers. This volume explains the basic features of this sophisticated technique in an essentially non-mathematical introduction that presents numerous examples.

Thompson discusses the assumptions, logic, and significance testing procedures required by this analysis, noting trends in its use and some recently developed extensions. Since canonical correlation analysis is generic to other parametric significance testing methods, such as t-tests, ANOVA, and regression, an understanding of the methodology will also help students interrelate these specific techniques.

Odds Ratios in the Analysis of Contingency Tables (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
By Tamas Rudas


Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Number Of Pages: 85
Publication Date: 1997-12-08
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0761903623
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780761903628
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:


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 association for tabular analysis. Throughout the book, Rudas provides real examples, including those from the famous Stouffer data on American soldiers in World War II. By presenting categorical data models in a unified framework, readers will learn not only how these models are related but also additional interpretations of these models not usually covered in other texts.

Understanding Regression Assumptions (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
By William D. Berry


Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Number Of Pages: 104
Publication Date: 1993-02-25
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 080394263X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780803942639
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:


Through the use of careful explanations and examples, Berry shows the reader how to consider whether the assumptions of multiple regression are actually satisfied in a particular research project. Beginning with a brief review of the regression assumptions as they are typically presented in textbooks, Berry moves on to explore in detail the "substantive" meaning of each assumption (such as lack of measurement error, absence of specification error, linearity, homoscedasticity, and lack of autocorrelation). Aimed at improving social science applications of regression, this volume is a must for every student’s and researcher’s library.

Analyzing Documentary Accounts (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
By Randy Dale Hodson


Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Number Of Pages: 96
Publication Date: 1999-07-16
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0761917438
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780761917434
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:

All kinds of human behavior are observed, written about, or documented. Ethnographers can be seen as "documentary accountants" -- they observe and provide analysis. This book shows how to use documentary works as data sources and how qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques can be combined. It shows how care must be taken with sampling and coding and gives attention to reliability and validity issues, showing how to begin statistical exploration once the data are assembled.

Statistical Graphics for Visualizing Multivariate Data (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
المؤلف:

William George Jacoby

Analyzing Decision Making: Metric Conjoint Analysis (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
المؤلف: Jordan J. Louviere

Analytic Mapping and Geographic Databases (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
المؤلف: G Garson, Robert S. Biggs

Tree Models of Similarity and Association (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
المؤلف: James E. Corter

Canonical Correlation Analysis: Uses and Interpretation (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
المؤلف: Bruce Thompson

Data Analysis: An Introduction (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
المؤلف: Michael S. Lewis-Beck

Statistical Graphics for Univariate and Bivariate Data (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
المؤلف: William George Jacoby