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Published:
December 15, 2012
Author(s):
D. Israel
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Introductory in its approach, this text covers essential aspects of research methods. The author emphasizes major topics, such as experimental design, scale construction techniques, testing reliability and validity, as well as the application of univariate, bivariate, and multivariate tools in data ...
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December 21, 2001
Author(s):
Nalini Ravishanker; Dipak K. Dey
This innovative, intermediate-level statistics text fills an important gap by presenting the theory of linear statistical models at a level appropriate for senior undergraduate or first-year graduate students. With an innovative approach, the author's introduces students to the mathematical and ...
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November 24, 1999
Author(s):
John H. Skillings; Donald Weber
Most texts on experimental design fall into one of two distinct categories. There are theoretical works with few applications and minimal discussion on design, and there are methods books with limited or no discussion of the underlying theory. Furthermore, most of these tend to either treat the ...
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Published:
August 03, 2010
Author(s):
Alan C. Acock
Updated to reflect the new features of Stata 11, A Gentle Introduction to Stata, Third Edition continues to help new Stata users become proficient in Stata. After reading this introductory text, you will be able to enter, build, and manage a data set as well as perform fundamental statistical ...
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Published:
November 24, 2003
Author(s):
Sabine Landau; Brian S. Everitt
A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using SPSS clearly describes how to conduct a range of univariate and multivariate statistical analyses using the latest version of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, SPSS 11. Each chapter addresses a different type of analytical procedure applied to ...
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Published:
July 26, 2012
Author(s):
Lawrence J Hubert; Howard Wainer
Written for researchers and graduate students in statistics and the social and behavioral sciences, this reference provides the formal scaffolding needed to reason ethically about what statisticians see in the course of their careers. It provides readers with a solid basis in statistical and ...
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Published:
August 17, 2006
Author(s):
Christopher F. Baum
Integrating a contemporary approach to econometrics with the powerful computational tools offered by Stata, An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata focuses on the role of method-of-moments estimators, hypothesis testing, and specification analysis and provides practical examples that ...
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Published:
June 04, 2008
Author(s):
David J. Bartholomew; Fiona Steele; Jane Galbraith; Irini Moustaki
Drawing on the authors’ varied experiences working and teaching in the field, Analysis of Multivariate Social Science Data, Second Editionenables a basic understanding of how to use key multivariate methods in the social sciences. With updates in every chapter, this edition expands its topics to ...
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Published:
September 21, 2011
Author(s):
Bruno Falissard
While theoretical statistics relies primarily on mathematics and hypothetical situations, statistical practice is a translation of a question formulated by a researcher into a series of variables linked by a statistical tool. As with written material, there are almost always differences between the ...
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Published:
August 01, 1996
Author(s):
John I Marden
This book is the first single source volume to fully address this prevalent practice in both its analytical and modeling aspects. The information discussed presents the use of data consisting of rankings in such diverse fields as psychology, animal science, educational testing, sociology, ...
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Published:
May 24, 2012
Author(s):
Wan Tang; Hua He; Xin M. Tu
In addition to traditional topics like logistic and Poisson regression models, this book covers modern statistical analysis subjects, such as models for count variables, longitudinal data analysis, reliability analysis, and methods for dealing with missing values. It pays special attention to small ...
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Published:
December 21, 2009
Author(s):
Sally Lesik
Through clear, step-by-step mathematical calculations, Applied Statistical Inference with MINITAB enables students to gain a solid understanding of how to apply statistical techniques using a statistical software program. It focuses on the concepts of confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, ...
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Published:
April 05, 2010
Author(s):
Steven G. Heeringa; Brady T. West; Patricia A. Berglund
Taking a practical approach that draws on the authors’ extensive teaching, consulting, and research experiences, Applied Survey Data Analysis provides an intermediate-level statistical overview of the analysis of complex sample survey data. It emphasizes methods and worked examples using available ...
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Published:
July 11, 2001
Author(s):
Philip Good
This publication is directed at both attorneys and statisticians to ensure they will work together successfully on the application of statistics in the law. Attorneys will learn how best to utilize the statistician's talents, while gaining an enriched understanding of the law relevant to audits, ...
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Published:
November 26, 2007
Author(s):
Jeff Gill
The first edition of Bayesian Methods: A Social and Behavioral Sciences Approach helped pave the way for Bayesian approaches to become more prominent in social science methodology. While the focus remains on practical modeling and basic theory as well as on intuitive explanations and derivations ...
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Published:
January 12, 2009
Author(s):
Lyle D. Broemeling
Using WinBUGS to implement Bayesian inferences of estimation and testing hypotheses, Bayesian Methods for Measures of Agreement presents useful methods for the design and analysis of agreement studies. It focuses on agreement among the various players in the diagnostic process. The author employs ...
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Published:
October 19, 2011
Author(s):
Max Vercruyssen; Hal W. Hendrick
Now in its fourth edition, Behavioral Research and Analysis: An Introduction to Statistics within the Context of Experimental Design presents an overview of statistical methods within the context of experimental design. It covers fundamental topics such as data collection, data analysis, ...
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Published:
August 03, 2010
Author(s):
Damaraju Raghavarao; James B. Wiley; Pallavi Chitturi
Conjoint analysis (CA) and discrete choice experimentation (DCE) are tools used in marketing, economics, transportation, health, tourism, and other areas to develop and modify products, services, policies, and programs, specifically ones that can be described in terms of attributes. A specific ...
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Published:
January 01, 1984
Author(s):
Leo Breiman; Jerome Friedman; Charles J. Stone; R.A. Olshen
The methodology used to construct tree structured rules is the focus of this monograph. Unlike many other statistical procedures, which moved from pencil and paper to calculators, this text's use of trees was unthinkable before computers. Both the practical and theoretical sides have been developed ...
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Published:
June 17, 1999
Author(s):
A.D. Gordon
As the amount of information recorded and stored electronically grows ever larger, it becomes increasingly useful, if not essential, to develop better and more efficient ways to summarize and extract information from these large, multivariate data sets. The field of classification does just ...
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Published:
July 30, 2002
Author(s):
D.R. Cox; P.J. Solomon
Identifying the sources and measuring the impact of haphazard variations are important in any number of research applications, from clinical trials and genetics to industrial design and psychometric testing. Only in very simple situations can such variations be represented effectively by ...
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Published:
November 22, 1999
Author(s):
Dankmar Bohning
Computer Assisted Analysis of Mixtures summarizes developments in the field over the last 20 years . Along with advancements in theory and algorithms, it explores developments in biometric applications, such as meta-analysis, disease mapping, fertility studies, estimation of prevalence under ...
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Published:
December 20, 2001
Author(s):
Jay E. Gould
Although there are many books written on the principles and methods of experimentation, few are written in a succinct, comprehensive outline format. The Concise Handbook of Experimental Methods for the Behavioral and Biological Sciences is based on a popular course taught by the author for more ...
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Published:
August 13, 2012
Author(s):
Robert G. Newcombe
Addressed primarily at researchers who have not been trained as statisticians, this book describes how to use appropriate methods to calculate confidence intervals to present research findings. It covers background issues, such as the link between hypothesis tests and confidence intervals and why ...
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Published:
May 07, 2007
Author(s):
Michael Greenacre
Drawing on the author’s experience in social and environmental research, Correspondence Analysis in Practice, Second Edition shows how the versatile method of correspondence analysis (CA) can be used for data visualization in a wide variety of situations. This completely revised, up-to-date edition ...
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