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Basic Statistics for Social Research
Routledge 1996; US$ 41.99Invaluable introduction to statistics using the Minitab program. It assumes no prior knowledge of statistics or computing and explains when to apply and how to apply and calculate a range of statistical proceedures used by social scientists. more...
Techniques of Event History Modeling
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 52.95Including new developments and publications which have appeared since the publication of the first edition in 1995, this second edition: *gives a comprehensive introductory account of event history modeling techniques and their use in applied research in economics and the social sciences; *demonstrates that event history modeling is a major step... more...
Principles and Methods of Social Research
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 70.00An extensive revision, this classic text presents the most recent advances in social research design and methodology. The authors thoroughly describe the research process using methods derived from basic principles of scientific inquiry and demonstrate how they apply to the study of human behavior. These applications make it an indispensable resource... more...
Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 39.00This is the first textbook on social network analysis integrating theory, applications, and professional software for performing network analysis. The book introduces the main concepts and their applications in social research with exercises. An application section explaining how to perform the network analyses with Pajek software follows each theoretical... more...
Models for Intensive Longitudinal Data
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 68.99A class of longitudinal data has emerged with the use of technological devices for scientific data collection. This class of data is called intensive longitudinal data (ILD). This volume features applied statistical modelling strategies developed by leading statisticians and methodologists working in conjunction with behavioural scientists. more...
Negotiating Boundaries and Borders, Volume 8
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 120.00Improving the lives of those who lack essential resources and opportunities can create dilemmas easily measured by qualitative methods. While these methods can play essential roles in the success of development efforts, they bring with them problems of knowledge, ethics, and implementation. more...
Event History Analysis With Stata
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Event History Analysis With Stata provides an introduction to event history modeling techniques using Stata (version 9), a widely used statistical program that provides tools for data analysis. The book emphasizes the usefulness of event history models for causal analysis in the social sciences and the application of continuous-time models. The... more...
Advances in Data Analysis
Springer 2007; US$ 189.99Focuses on exploraory data analysis, learning of latent structures in datasets, and unscrambling of knowledge. This work covers a range of methods from multivariate statistics, clustering and classification, visualization and scaling as well as from data and time series analysis. It also gives approaches for information retrieval and data mining. more...
Linking and Aligning Scores and Scales
Springer 2007; US$ 79.99The comparability of measurements made in differing circumstances by different methods and investigators is a fundamental pre-condition for all of science. Successful applications of technology require comparable measurements. While the applications herefocus on educational tests, score linking issues are directly applicable to medicine and many branches... more...
The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth
Springer 2007; US$ 139.99Since the 18th century, one phenomenon, the proportion of the sexes at birth among human beings, has contributed to various developments such as the calculus of probabilities, administrative statistics, the moral and social sciences, the statistics of variability, post-Darwinian biology and Durkheimian sociology. This fact is brought to the critical... more...









