| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 61 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; 07-005 |
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Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; no. 07-005
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| Contents |
Introduction: The Purposes of Cohort Analysis -- Definitions; Comparison of Cohort Analysis With Related Methods -- The Identification Problem --Strategies for estimating age, period and cohort effects: The Mason, Mason, Winsborough, and Poole Method -- The Nakamura Bayesian Method -- The Quest Continues -- Age-Period-Cohort-Characteristic (APCC) Models -- Informal Means of Assessing APC Effects -- An Illustration: A Cohort Analysis of Personal Happiness -- Use of cohort analysis fro understanding change -- Data requirements and availability: Data Requirements -- Data Availability -- The future |
| Summary |
Covering the basis of the cohort approach to studying aging social & cultural change, this volume also critiques several commonly used, but flawed, methods of cohort analysis, & illustrates appropriate methods with analyses of personal happiness & attitudes toward premarital & extramarital sexual relations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-56) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cohort analysis.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1412983665 (ebook) |
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1441630031 (electronic bk.) |
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1452212988 |
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9781412983662 (ebook) |
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9781441630032 (electronic bk.) |
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9781452212982 |
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