Event History Analysis - Statistical theory and Application in the Social Sciences (Hardcover)

Serving as both a student textbook and a professional reference/handbook, this volume explores the statistical methods of examining time intervals between successive state transitions or events. Examples include: survival rates of patients in medical studies, unemployment periods in economic studies, or the period of time it takes a criminal to break the law after his release in a criminological study. The authors illustrate the entire research path required in the application of event-history analysis, from the initial problems of recording event-oriented data to the specific questions of data organization, to the concrete application of available program packages and the interpretation of the obtained results. Event History Analysis: * makes didactically accessible the inclusion of covariates in semi-parametric and parametric regression models based upon concrete examples * presents the unabbreviated close relationship underlying statistical theory * details parameter-free methods of analysis of event-history data and the possibilities of their graphical presentation * discusses specific problems of multi-state and multi-episode models * introduces time-varying covariates and the question of unobserved population heterogeneity * demonstrates, through examples, how to implement hypotheses tests and how to choose the right model.

General

Imprint:	Psychology Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 1988
First published:	1989
Authors:	Hans-Peter Blossfeld • Alfred Hamerle • Karl Ulrich Mayer
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	298
ISBN-13:	978-0-8058-0126-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General
LSN:	0-8058-0126-X
Barcode:	9780805801262

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