Relative Distribution Methods in the Social Sciences

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Handcock, Mark S. (Συγγραφέας), Morris, Martina (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 1999.
• Σειρά: Statistics for Social Science and Behavorial Sciences
• Θέματα: Statistics.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.

In social science research, differences among groups or changes over time are a common focus of study. While means and variances are typically the basis for statistical methods used in this research, the underlying social theory often implies properties of distributions that are not well captured by...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• and Motivation
• The Relative Distribution
• Location, Scale and Shape Decomposition
• Application: White Men’s Earnings 1967–1997
• Summary Measures
• Application: Earnings by Race and Sex: 1967–1997
• Adjustment for Covariates
• Application: Comparing Wage Mobility in Two Eras
• Inference for the Relative Distribution
• Inference for Summary Measures
• The Relative Distribution for Discrete Data
• Application: Changes in the Distribution of Hours Worked
• Quantile Regression.