Relative Distribution Methods in the Social Sciences |
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| Author:
| Handcock, Mark S.
Morris, Martina |
| Editor:
| Fienberg, S.
Lievesley, D.
Rolph, J. |
| Series title: | Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-387-98778-1 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1999 |
| Publisher: | Springer New York
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| Imprint: | Springer |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $109.99USD $54.99 |
Book Description:
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In social science research, differences among groups or changes over time is a common focus of study. Survey and census data on such attributes (e.g., analyzing the gender gap in earnings) contain a wealth of distributional information, which traditional methods of data analysis cannot tap. This applications-oriented book presents methods for full comparative distributional analysis offering a graphical component that simplifies exploratory data analysis and its display. Software and...
More DescriptionIn social science research, differences among groups or changes over time is a common focus of study. Survey and census data on such attributes (e.g., analyzing the gender gap in earnings) contain a wealth of distributional information, which traditional methods of data analysis cannot tap. This applications-oriented book presents methods for full comparative distributional analysis offering a graphical component that simplifies exploratory data analysis and its display. Software and data sets are available on the Internet.