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Informationen zum Autor Lawrence L. Wu is Director of the Center for Advanced Social Science Research and Professor of Sociology at New York University. He has substantial methodological expertise in event history methods and has given several invited didactic seminars on these methods. His methodological work on event history methods has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Child and Human Development. He is chair-elect of the Population Section of the American Sociological Association! book review editor of Sociological Methods and Research! and series editor (with M. Alvarez and N. Beck) of Analytical Methods for Social Research. Klappentext Event history analysis is an umbrella term for a set of procedures for time series analysis. Event history models focus on the hazard function, which has to do with the probabilities that an event will occur after any given duration. Duration to the hazard of death was the classic example in medical research, but the hazard may have a positive meaning also, such as duration until the event of adoption of an innovation in diffusion research Over the last two decades, event-history analysis has emerged as a mature analytical tool in the social sciences. This four-volume edited collection consists of a) classic papers that have been key in determining or explicating various subareas of event history analysis, and b) high quality applications that demonstrate the utility of event history analysis, drawn from a wide range of substantive areas. Zusammenfassung Edited by a prominent figure in the field! this four-volume set presents a careful selection of the key historical and contemporary works on the the vast range of quantitative and qualitative methods in the social sciences. Inhaltsverzeichnis VOLUME 1 Overviews Event History Models for Life Course Analysis - Lawrence Wu Nonparametric Estimation: Theory Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations - E.L. Kaplan and Paul Meier Theory and Applications of Hazard Plotting for Censored Failure Data - Wayne Nelson Nonparametric Inference for a Family of Counting Processes - Odd Aalen A Flaw in Actuarial Exposed-to-Risk Theory - Jan Hoem Issues in Smoothing Empirical Hazards - Lawrence Wu Nonparametric Estimation: Applications The Incidence of Divorce within Cohorts of American Marriages Contracted since the Civil War - Samuel Preston and John McDonald Slipping Into and Out of Poverty: The Dynamics of Spells - Mary Jo Bane and David Ellwood Trends in Cohabitation and Implications for Children¿s Family Contexts - Larry Bumpass and Hsien-Hen Lu Cohort Estimates of Nonmarital Fertility - Lawrence Wu The Cox Model: Theory Regression Models and Life Tables - D. R. Cox Understanding Cox¿s Regression Model: A Martingale Approach - Richard Gill The Cox Model: Applications Unemployment over the Life Cycle: Racial Differences and the Effect of Changing Economic Conditions - Thomas DiPrete Entry into Marriage and Parenthood by Young Men and Women: The Influence of Family Background - Robert Michael and Nancy Brandon Tuma Parametric Models: Theory On the Nature of the Function Expressive of the Law of Human Mortality - Benjamin Gompertz The Distribution by Age of the Frequency of First Marriage - Ansley Coale and Donald McNeil The Process of Entry into First Marriage - Gudmund Hernes A Comparison of the ¿Sickle Function¿ with Alternative Stochastic Models of Divorce Rates - Andreas Diekmann and Peter Mitter VOLUME 2 Parametric Models: Applications The Divergence of Black and White Marriage Patterns - Neil Bennett, David Bloom and Patricia Craig Social Inheritance of Divorce in Postwar Germany - Andreas Diekman and Henriette Engelhardt Legal Environments and Organizational...
