Analyzing Complex Survey Data (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)

✍ Scribed by Dr. Eun Sul Lee, Dr. Ronald N. Forthofer

Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 105
Edition: 2nd
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book examines ways to analyze complex surveys, and focuses on the problems of weights and design effects. This new edition incorporates recent practice of analyzing complex survey data, introduces the new analytic approach for categorical data analysis (logistic regression), reviews new software and provides an introduction to the model-based analysis that can be useful analyzing well-designed, relatively small-scale social surveys.

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