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Donald J. Treiman, PhD, is Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles. He was also, until recently, director of the California Center for Population Research.
Tables, Figures, Exhibits, and Boxes | |
Preface | |
The Author | |
Introduction | |
cross-Tabulations | |
What This Chapter Is About | |
Introduction to the Book via a Concrete Example | |
Cross-Tabulations | |
What This Chapter Has Shown | |
More on Tables | |
What This Chapter Is About | |
The Logic of Elaboration | |
Suppressor Variables | |
Additive and Interaction Effects | |
Direct Standardization | |
A Final Note on Statistical Controls Versus Experiments | |
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Still More on Tables | |
What This Chapter Is About | |
Reorganizing Tables to Extract New Information | |
When to Percentage a Table "Backwards" | |
Cross-Tabulations in Which the Dependent Variable Is Represented by a Mean | |
Index of Dissimilarity | |
Writing About Cross-Tabulations | |
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On the Manipulation of Data by Computer | |
What This Chapter Is About | |
Introduction | |
How Data Files Are Organized | |
Transforming Data | |
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Appendix 4 | |
A Doing Analysis Using Stata | |
Tips on Doing Analysis Using Stata | |
Some Particularly Useful Stata 10.0 Commands | |
Introduction to Correlation and Regression (Ordinary Least Squares) | |
What This Chapter Is About | |
Introduction | |
Quantifying the Size of a Relationship: Regression Analysis | |
Assessing the Strength of a Relationship: Correlation Analysis | |
The Relationship Between Correlation and Regression Coefficients | |
Factors Affecting the Size of Correlation (and Regression) Coefficients | |
Correlation Ratios | |
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Introduction to Multiple Correlation and Regression (Ordinary Least Squares) | |
What This Chapter Is About | |
Introduction | |
A Worked Example: The Determinants of Literacy in China | |
Dummy Variables | |
A Strategy for Comparisons Across Groups | |
A Bayesian Alternative for Comparing Models | |
Independent Validation | |
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Multiple Regression Tricks: Techniques for Handling Special Analytic Problems | |
What This Chapter Is About | |
Nonlinear Transformations | |
Testing the Equality of Coefficients | |
Trend Analysis: Testing the Assumption of Linearity | |
Linear Splines | |
Expressing Coefficients as Deviations from the Grand Mean (Multiple Classifi cation Analysis) | |
Other Ways of Representing Dummy Variables | |
Decomposing the Difference Between Two Means | |
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Multiple Imputation of Missing Data | |
What This Chapter Is About | |
Introduction | |
A Worked Example: The Effect of Cultural Capital on Educational Attainment in Russia | |
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Sample Design and Survey Estimation | |
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Survey Samples | |
Conclusion | |
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Regression Diagnostics | |
What This Chapter Is About | |
Introduction | |
A Worked | |
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