Description
Book SynopsisBased on the multifaceted Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Second Edition, this concise book outlines the statistical concepts and techniques for application that are essential for understanding data gathered from modern research in the social and behavioral sciences.
Table of ContentsPreface v
Contributors vii
1. Actuarial Science 1
2. Causation-I 6
3. Causation-II 9
4. Census 25
5. Correlation 32
6. Current Population Survey 46
7. Data Masking for Disclosure Avoidance 56
8. Divisia Indices 66
9. Econometrics 69
10. Educational Statistics 81
11. Electron Forecasting in the United Kingdom 88
12. Electron Projections 93
13. Employment Cost Index 97
14. Evolution of Current Population Survey 105
15. Federal Statistics 119
16. Fertility Measurement 128
17. Graduation 134
18. Human Capital 141
19. Dagum System of Income and Wealth Distributions 156
20. Income Distribution Models 174
21. Income Inequality Measures 186
22. Indexes: Affluence, Poverty, and Quality of Life 210
23. Index of Industrial Production 215
24. Infant Morality 220
25. Labor Statistics 223
26. Life Tables 228
27. Literature and Statistics-I 232
28. Literature and Statistics-II 238
29. Mathematical Theory of Population 242
30. Medico-Actuarial Investigations 249
31. Migration 255
32. Music, Probability, and Statistics 259
33. Numeracy 263
34. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys 271
35. Population Growth Models 277
36. Population Projection 285
37. Probabilistic Voting Models 289
38. Productivity Measurement 296
39. Public Opinion Polls 302
40. Purchasing Power Parity 308
41. Psychological Decision Making 313
42. Sabermetrics 319
43. Social Security Statistics 324
44. Social Statistics 329
45. Sociometry 335
46. Scoring Systems in Sports 339
47. Statistical Aspects of Television Viewing 343
48. Statistical Methods in Psychophysics 348
49. Statistics and Religious Studies 353
50. Statistics in Agriculture Production 357
51. Statistics in Archaeology-I 373
52. Statistics in Archaeology-II 378
53. Statistics in Childhood Obesity 385
54. Statistics in Historical Studies 400
55. Statistics in Gambling 407
56. Statistics in Law 411
57. Statistics in Linguistics 421
58. Statistics in Musicology 429
59. Statistics in Political Science 437
60. Statistics in Psychology 446
61. Statistics in Sociology 453
62. Statistics in Sports 461
63. Stochastic Demography 467
64. The Theory and Practice of Index Numbers 480
65. Transferable Vote System for Elections 505
66. Uncertainty in Economics 508
67. U.S. Bureau of the Census 515
68. Utility Theory 531
69. Utilization Analysis 539
70. Vital Statistics 544
71. Whittaker-Henderson Graduation Formulas 549
Index 553
