Handbook of Statistical Modeling for the Social and Behavioral Sciences [Hardcover]

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. This handbook will aid researchers, methodologists, graduate students, and statisticians to understand and resolve common modeling problems.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. This handbook will aid researchers, methodologists, graduate students, and statisticians to understand and resolve common modeling problems.Casual Inference in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Missing Data. Specification and Estimation of Mean Structures. The Analysis of Contingency Tables. Latent Class Models. Panel Analysis for Metric Data. Panel Analysis for Qualitative Variables. Analysis of Event Histories. Random Coefficient Models. Index.