Statistics in the social sciences: current methodological developments

This book represents an original collection from contributors around the world of over fifteen articles that bring together new and exciting statistical methodologies in the social sciences. It is fashioned after the 2006 Winemiller Symposium on Recent Advances in Social Science Statistics that was held in Columbia, Missouri in late 2006. Recently, the quantitative methodology in socialsciences has advanced in a number of significant directions that have never been summarized under a single cover. This book fits that niche and it providesoverviews of the most important advanced techniques in social sciences, including latent variable models, multilevel models, social networks, missing data techniques, educational measurement, cluster analysis, and treatment effects. The aim of the book is to foster collaboration among mathematical statisticians and quantitatively-oriented social science researchers. The interdisciplinary approach brings together top researchers from major social science disciplines and highlights the interface between recent developments in each area.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-14874-7
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 12/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés