Contextual Analysis

Klappentext The effective use of contextual analysis - the study of the role of group context on actions and attitudes of individuals - often involves overcoming a number of issues such as group boundaries, the mobility of individuals within a group, overlapping groups, missing individual data and the choice of statistical models. This straightforward volume offers researchers a guide for selecting the best model to use, and discusses such topics as contextual analysis with absolute effects, with relative effects and the choice between regression coefficients as fixed parameters or as random variables. Zusammenfassung Offers researchers a guide for selecting the best statistical model to use! as well as discussing such topics as contextual analysis with absolute/relative effects! and the choice between regression coefficients as fixed parameters or as random variables. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Contingency Tables Contextual Analysis with Absolute Effects Contextual Analysis with Relative Effects Examples of Absolute and Relative Data Centering Other Approaches

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Gudmund R. Iversen, IVERSEN GUDMUND R, Iversen Gudmund R.
• Collaboration: Gudmund R. Iversen (Editeur)
• Edition: Sage Publications Ltd
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 08.10.1991
• EAN: 9780803942721
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-4272-1
• Pages: 84
• Thèmes: Quantitative Applications in t; Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences; Quantitative Applications in t
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences sociales en général; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Général, dictionnaires; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, Social research & statistics, Social research and statistics