Research Catalog

Title

Statistical methods for human rights / Jana Asher, David Banks, Fritz J. Scheuren, editors.

Publication

New York : Springer, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Asher, Jana
• Banks, David L.
• Scheuren, Fritz

Description

xxi, 339 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Human rights issues are shaping the modern world. They define the expectations by which nations are judged and affect the policy of governments, corporations, and foundations. They have set the agenda in prosecutions at the International Criminal Court at the Hague, funding decisions by the International Monetary Fund, and corporate expansion programs by multinationals. Statistics is central to the modern perspective on human rights. It allows researchers to measure the effect of health care policies, the penetration of educational opportunity, and progress towards gender equality. The new wav.

Subject

• Human rights > Statistical methods
• Statistics
• Social sciences > Methodology
• Demography
• Statistics
• Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law
• Methodology of the Social Sciences
• Demography
• Public Health/Gesundheitswesen

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Jana Asher -- The statistics of genocide / Mary W. Gray and Sharon Marek -- Why estimate direct and indirect casualties from war? The rule of proportionality and casualty estimates / Beth O. Daponte -- Statistical thinking and data analysis : enhancing human rights work / Jorge L. Romeu -- Hidden in plain sight : X.X. burials and the desaparecidos in the Department of Guatemala, 1977-1986 / Clyde Collins Snow, Fredy Armando Peccerelli, José Samuel Susanávar, Alan G. Robinson, and Jose Maria Najera Ochoa -- The demography of conflict-related mortality in Timor-Leste (1974-1999) : reflections on empirical quantitative measurement of civilian killings, disappearances, and famine-related deaths / Romesh Silva and Patrick Ball -- Afghan refugee camp surveys in Pakistan, 2002 / James Bell, David Nolle, Ruth Citrin and Fritz Scheuren -- Metagora : an experiment in the measurement of democratic governance / Jan Robert Suesser and R. Suarez de Miguel -- Human rights of statisticians and statistics of human rights : early history of the American Statistical Association's Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights / Thomas B. Jabine and Douglas A. Samuelson -- Obtaining evidence for the International Criminal Court using data and quantitative analysis / Herbert F. Spirer and William Seltzer -- New issues in human rights statistics / David L. Banks and Yasmin H. Said -- Statistics and the Millennium Development Goals / David J. Fitch, Paul Wassenich, Paul Fields, Fritz Scheuren, and Jana Asher -- Using population data systems to target vulnerable population subgroups and individuals : issues and incidents / William Seltzer and Margo Anderson.

ISBN

• 9780387728377 (electronic bk.)
• 9780387728360 (acid-free paper)
• 0387728368 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2007931615

OCLC

• 154711989
• SCSB-10210424

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library