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Das Buch fuhrt schrittweise in die faszinierende Welt statistischer Analysen ein. Es erfordert weder Vorwissen in Statistik noch in einem bestimmten Fachgebiet, nur einige Grundkenntnisse in Mathematik und Neugier auf Daten, die vor allem beobachtete Merkmale von Personen sind. Das Buch enthalt viele Beispiele fur Fragen, die mit Hilfe von Daten beantwortet werden koennen und einfache Zahlenbeispiele fur verschiedene Arten von Analysen. Es ist daher geeignet fur Erstsemester und fur alle, die da...

The book presents statistical methods and models that can usefully support the ev- uation of educational services and quality of products. The contributions collected in this book summarize the work of several researchers from the universities of Bologna, Firenze, Napoli and Padova. The contributions are written with a cons- tent notation and a uni?ed view, and concern methodological advances developed mostly with reference to speci?c problems of evaluation using real data sets. The evaluation o...

An ideal textbook for an introductory course on quantitative methods for social scientistsData Analysis for Social Science provides a friendly introduction to the statistical concepts and programming skills needed to conduct and evaluate social scientific studies. Using plain language and assuming no prior knowledge of statistics and coding, the book provides a step-by-step guide to analyzing real-world data with the statistical program R for the purpose of answering a wide range of substantive...

The overall structure of the book is designed to have the reader look at the "big picture" so that the basic statistical concepts connect in a coherent and logical manner. Key terms are defined as they appear and the reader is engaged with diverse examples throughout. Throughout the book the reader is reminded what they need to be able to recall with "You Must Remember This" boxes. A rich source of practical resources are located at the end of chapters beginning with "What You learned" so th...

Being "problem driven" this textbook on applied statistics goes beyond the presentation of introductory "Quantitative Method". It focuses on issues ranging from population explosion to the inequalities of global income distribution, from depletion trends of non-renewable resources to atmospheric pollution and potential climate change. The book includes national socio-economic and environmental statistics from over 140 countries, building an up-to-date scenario of worldwide population growth, eco...

This collection of papers provides an up to date treatment of item response theory, an important topic in educational testing.

The thirty-fourth issue of the Statistical Abstract of the Arab Region presents time series statistics and indicators on economic and social issues in all fourteen Arab Region member countries. The Abstract is divided into twelve chapters addressing the following topics: population; labour force; education and illiteracy; health; gender equality; national accounts; energy; industry; transport; foreign trade; financial statistics and prices; and information and communications technology. Data con...

This book explores widely used seasonal adjustment methods and recent developments in real time trend-cycle estimation. It discusses in detail the properties and limitations of X12ARIMA, TRAMO-SEATS and STAMP - the main seasonal adjustment methods used by statistical agencies. Several real-world cases illustrate each method and real data examples can be followed throughout the text. The trend-cycle estimation is presented using nonparametric techniques based on moving averages, linear filters a...