Product Description: This study introduces several recent innovations in latent class analysis to a wider audience of researchers. Many of the world's leading innovators in the field of latent class analysis have contributed essays to the volume, each presenting a key innovation to the basic LCM and illustrating how it can prove useful in situations typically encountered in actual research...read more

Product Description: This volume deals with the values of the people in contemporary Europe. Using the survey data from the European Values Study, a number of basic values and the dynamics of value change are explored from an economic, political, social, and religious-moral point of view...read more

Product Description: This annual volume, sponsored by the American Sociological Association, focuses on methods of research in the social sciences. Published to advance empirical research in sociology and related disciplines, Sociolgical Methodologyis a valuable aid to the understanding and use of methodologies, providing readers with the techniques and perspectives on research needed to strengthen sociological reasoning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Social scientists interested in the systematic, empirical investigation of social change will find Categorical Longitudinal Data an ideal tool for analyzing social survey data. Now available in paperback, it provides an excellent summary of the log-linear models with latent variables and also covers the latest log-linear models which have been developed in the last decade...read more

Product Description: In recent years the loglinear model has become the dominant form of categorical data analysis as researchers have expanded it into new directions. This book shows researchers the applications of one of these new developments - how uniting ordinary loglinear analysis and latent class analysis into a general loglinear model with latent variables can result in a modified LISREL approach...read more