| Description |
1 online resource (477 p.) |
| Series |
New York Academy of Sciences Ser. ; v.27 |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser
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| Contents |
Quantitative Data Analysis: Doing Social Research to Test Ideas -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, Exhibits, and Boxes -- Preface -- The Author -- Introduction -- 1 Cross-Tabulations -- What This Chapter Is About -- Introduction to the Book via a Concrete Example -- Cross-Tabulations -- What This Chapter Has Shown -- 2 More on Tables -- What This Chapter Is About -- The Logic of Elaboration -- Suppressor Variables -- Additive and Interaction Effects -- Direct Standardization -- A Final Note on Statistical Controls Versus Experiments -- What This Chapter Has Shown -- 3 Still More on Tables |
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What This Chapter Is About -- Reorganizing Tables to Extract New Information -- When to Percentage a Table "Backwards" -- Cross-Tabulations in Which the Dependent Variable Is Represented by a Mean -- Index of Dissimilarity -- Writing About Cross-Tabulations -- What This Chapter Has Shown -- 4 On the Manipulation of Data by Computer -- What This Chapter Is About -- Introduction -- How Data Files Are Organized -- Transforming Data -- What This Chapter Has Shown -- Appendix 4.A Doing Analysis Using Stata -- Tips on Doing Analysis Using Stata -- Some Particularly Useful Stata 10.0 Commands |
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5 Introduction to Correlation and Regression (Ordinary Least Squares) -- What This Chapter Is About -- Introduction -- Quantifying the Size of a Relationship: Regression Analysis -- Assessing the Strength of a Relationship: Correlation Analysis -- The Relationship Between Correlation and Regression Coefficients -- Factors Affecting the Size of Correlation (and Regression) Coefficients -- Correlation Ratios -- What This Chapter Has Shown -- 6 Introduction to Multiple Correlation and Regression (Ordinary Least Squares) -- What This Chapter Is About -- Introduction |
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A Worked Example: The Determinants of Literacy in China -- Dummy Variables -- A Strategy for Comparisons Across Groups -- A Bayesian Alternative for Comparing Models -- Independent Validation -- What This Chapter Has Shown -- 7 Multiple Regression Tricks: Techniques for Handling Special Analytic Problems -- What This Chapter Is About -- Nonlinear Transformations -- Testing the Equality of Coefficients -- Trend Analysis: Testing the Assumption of Linearity -- Linear Splines -- Expressing Coefficients as Deviations from the Grand Mean (Multiple Classification Analysis) |
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Other Ways of Representing Dummy Variables -- Decomposing the Difference Between Two Means -- What This Chapter Has Shown -- 8 Multiple Imputation of Missing Data -- What This Chapter Is About -- Introduction -- A Worked Example: The Effect of Cultural Capital on Educational Attainment in Russia -- What This Chapter Has Shown -- 9 Sample Design and Survey Estimation -- What This Chapter Is About -- Survey Samples -- Conclusion -- What This Chapter Has Shown -- 10 Regression Diagnostics -- What This Chapter Is About -- Introduction -- A Worked Example: Societal Differences in Status Attainment |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Robust Regression |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118512609 |
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111851260X |
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