Interpreting Economic and Social Data A Foundation of Descriptive Statistics /

• Main Author: Winkler, Othmar W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Statistics.; Economic history.; Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance.; Methodology/History of Economic Thought.

"Interpreting Economic and Social Data" aims at rehabilitating the descriptive function of socio-economic statistics, bridging the gap between today's statistical theory on one hand, and econometric and mathematical models of society on the other. It does this by offering a deeper und...

Table of Contents:

• Developments in Socio-Economic Statistics
• From the Facts in Society to Socio-Economic Data
• Structure and Nature of Socio-Economic Data: The Aggregates
• Ratios in the Social Sciences
• Interpreting Longitudinal Data, Part 1 #x2013; Looking to the Past
• Longitudinal Analysis, Part 2 #x2013;Looking to the Future
• Longitudinal Analysis, Part 3 #x2013; Index Numbers
• Cross Sectional Analysis in One Dimension
• Cross Sectional Analysis in More Than One Dimension
• Socio-Economic Statistics and Probability
• The Interface between Statistics and Accounting
• Socio-Economic Statistics and Geography.