Studying Human Populations An Advanced Course in Statistics /

• Main Author: Longford, Nicholas T. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2008.
• Series: Springer Texts in Statistics,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Epidemiology.; Biometrics (Biology).; Statistics.; Demography.; Psychometrics.; Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Statistical Theory and Methods.; Biometrics.

Studying Human Populations is a textbook for graduate students and research workers in social statistics and related subject areas. It follows a novel curriculum developed around the basic statistical activities of sampling, measurement and inference. Statistics is defined broadly as making decision...

Table of Contents:

• ANOVA and Ordinary Regression
• Maximum Likelihood Estimation
• Sampling Methods
• The Bayesian Paradigm
• Incomplete Data
• Imperfect Measurement
• Experiments and Observational Studies
• Clinical Trials
• Random Coefficients
• Generalised Linear Models
• Longitudinal and Time-Series Analysis
• Meta-Analysis and Estimating Many Quantities.