Mark S Handcock

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Relative Distribution Methods in the Social Sciences (1999)Hardcover - 1999, 5 August 1999

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Part of Series
Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences
Part of Series
Statistics for Social Science and Public Policy
Print Length
266 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
5 Aug 1999
ISBN-10
0387987789
ISBN-13
9780387987781

Description

In social science research, differences among groups or changes over time are a common focus of study. While means and variances are typically the basis for statistical methods used in this research, the underlying social theory often implies properties of distributions that are not well captured by these summary measures. Examples include the current controversies regarding growing inequality in earnings, racial diferences in test scores, socio-economic correlates of birth outcomes, and the impact of smoking on survival and health. The distributional differences that animate the debates in these fields are complex. They comprise the usual mean-shifts and changes in variance, but also more subtle comparisons of changes in the upper and lower tails of distributions. Survey and census data on such attributes contain a wealth of distributional information, but traditional methods of data analysis leave much of this information untapped. In this monograph, we present methods for full comparative distributional analysis. The methods are based on the relative distribution, a nonparametric complete summary of the information required for scale--invariant comparisons between two distributions. The relative distribution provides a general integrated framework for analysis. It offers a graphical component that simplifies exploratory data analysis and display, a statistically valid basis for the development of hypothesis-driven summary measures, and the potential for decomposition that enables one to examine complex hypotheses regarding the origins of distributional changes within and between groups. The monograph is written for data analysts and those interested in measurement, and it can serve as a textbook for a course on distributional methods. The presentation is application oriented,

Product Details

Authors:
Mark S HandcockMartina Morris
Book Edition:
1999
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
5 August 1999
Dimensions:
24.1 x 16.15 x 1.78 cm
ISBN-10:
0387987789
ISBN-13:
9780387987781
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
266
Publisher:
Weight:
535.24 gm

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