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Product Description: Categorical Variables in Developmental Research provides developmental researchers with the basic tools for understanding how to utilize categorical variables in their data analysis. Covering the measurement of individual differences in growth rates, the measurement of stage transitions, latent class and log-linear models, chi-square, and more, the book provides a means for developmental researchers to make use of categorical data...read more

Product Description: Contributors thoroughly survey the most important statistical models used in empirical reserch in the social and behavioral sciences. Following a common format, each chapter introduces a model, illustrates the types of problems and data for which the model is best used, provides numerous examples that draw upon familiar models or procedures, and includes material on software that can be used to estimate the models studied...read more

Product Description: This volume demonstrates how data involving response variables of the many ordered categories can be analyzed, and what techniques would be most useful in analyzing partially ordered variables regarded as dependent variables. The applications of new models and methods for the analysis of ordinal variables are emphasized and techniques outlined include: general procedures for assessing the goodness-of-fit; review of the independence model and saturated model; defining measures of association; demonstrating the logit versions of the model; and development of association models and logit-type models...read more

Product Description: A conference on "Outcomes of Early Childbearing: An Appraisal of Recent Evidence" brought together an interdisciplinary group of researchers who study the effects of adolescent parenthood on social, economic, and health outcomes for mothers and their children...read more

Product Description: Intended for those involved in the study of contemporary statistics, psychometics and econometrics, as well as sociological methodology itself, this volume is designed to be a valuable aid to the understanding and use of methodologies, providing techniques and perspectives on research that can be used to strengthen sociological and other types of social science reasoning...read more

Product Description: This volume includes recent developments in the language of social research. In 13 articles tackling research areas as diverse as newspaper accounts of labour unrest and the theoretical concept of brokerage. The international contributors demonstrate that methodologies already current in contemporary statistics, psychometrics, econometrics and linguistics provide rich resources for researchers in sociology and allied fields...read more

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