Research Catalog

Title

Complex surveys : a guide to analysis using R / Thomas Lumley.

Author

Lumley, Thomas, 1969-

Publication

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2010.

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Details

Description

xv, 276 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Summary

"Complex Surveys is an excellent book for courses on sampling and complex surveys at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. It is also a practical reference guide for applied statisticians and practitioners in the social and health sciences who use statistics in their everyday work."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Wiley series in survey methodology

Uniform Title

Wiley series in survey methodology.

Subject

• Electronic Data Processing
• Mathematical statistics > Data processing
• Models, Statistical
• R (Computer program language)
• Statistics as Topic

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

1. Basic tools -- 2. Simple and stratified sampling -- 3. Cluster sampling -- 4. Graphics -- 5. Ratios and linear regression -- 6. Categorical data regression -- 7. Post-stratification, raking and calibration -- 8. Two-phase sampling -- 9. Missing data -- 10. Causal inference -- App. A. Analytic details -- App. B. Basic R -- App. C. Computational details -- App. D. Database-backed design objects -- App. E. Extending the package.

ISBN

• 9780470284308 (pbk.)
• 0470284307 (pbk.)

LCCN

2009033999

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries