Research Catalog

Title

Regression analysis : a constructive critique / Richard A. Berk.

Author

Berk, Richard A.

Publication

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2004.

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Details

Description

xix, 259 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Regression Analysis : A Constructive Critique identifies a wide variety of problems with regression analysis as it is commonly used and then provides a number of ways in which practice could be improved. Regression is most useful for data reduction, leading to relatively simple but rich and precise descriptions of patterns in a data set. The emphasis on description provides readers with an insightful rethinking from the ground up of what regression analysis can do, so that readers can better match regression analysis with useful empirical questions and improved policy-related research."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Advanced quantitative techniques in the social sciences ; v. 11

Uniform Title

Advanced quantitative techniques in the social sciences ; 11.

Subject

• Regression analysis
• Regression Analysis
• Regression analysis
• Regressionsanalyse
• Methode
• Kritik
• Regressieanalyse

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-250) and index.

Contents

Prologue: Regression Analysis as Problematic -- A Grounded Introduction to Regression Analysis -- Simple Linear Regression -- Statistical Inference for Simple Linear Regression -- Causal Inference for the Simple Linear Model -- The Formalities of Multiple Regression -- Using and Interpreting Multiple Regression -- Some Popular Extensions of Multiple Regression -- Some Regression Diagnostics -- Further Extensions of Regression Analysis -- What to Do.

ISBN

• 0761929045
• 9780761929048

LCCN

• 2003046500
• 9780761929048

OCLC

• ocm51886484
• 51886484
• SCSB-9195824

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library