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Interpreting Economic and Social Data : A Foundation of Descriptive Statistics / by Othmar W. Winkler
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: SpringerLink BücherPublisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2009Description: Online-Ressource (xvi, 265 pags,59 illus, digital)ISBN:- 9783540687214
- 9783540687207
- 330.015195
- 300.15195 519.5
- QA276-280
- HA29
Contents:
Summary: 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.Summary: "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 understanding of data and methods with surprising insights, the result of the author's six decades of teaching, consulting and involvement in statistical surveys. The author challenges many preconceptions about aggregation, time series, index numbers, frequency distributions, regression analysis and probability, nudging statistical theory in a different direction. "Interpreting Social and Economic Data" also links statistics with other quantitative fields like accounting and geography. It is aimed at students and professors in business, economics and social science courses, and in general, at users of socio-economic data, requiring only an acquaintance with elementary statistical theory.PPN: PPN: 1648365914Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-SEB | ZDB-2-SXMS | ZDB-2-SMA
Preface; Contents; to 1 Developments in Socio-Economic Statistics; to 2 From the Facts in Society to Socio-Economic Data; to 3 Structure and Nature of Socio-Economic Data: The Aggregates; to 4 Ratios in the Social Sciences; to 5 Interpreting Longitudinal Data, Part 1Looking to the Past; to 6 Longitudinal Analysis, Part 2 -- Looking to the Future; to 7 Longitudinal Analysis, Part 3 -- Index Numbers; to 8 Cross Sectional Analysis in One Dimension; to 9 Cross Sectional Analysis in More Than One Dimension; to 10 Socio-Economic Statistics and Probability
to 11 The Interface Between Statistics and Accountingto 12 Socio-Economic Statistics and Geography; Afterthoughts; to A Appendix to Chapter 3; to B Appendix to Chapter 5; to C Appendix to Chapter 8; to D Appendix to Chapter 9; to E Appendix to Chapter 10; Index
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