Regression Analysis by Richard A Berk

Regression Analysis by Richard A Berk

As a formal matter, conventional regression analysis does nothing more than produce from a data set a collection of conditional means and conditional variances. This work 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.

"Berk has incisively identified the various strains of regression abuse and suggests practical steps for researchers who desire to do good social science while avoiding such errors"

-- Peter H. Rossi

"I have been waiting for a book like this for some time. Practitioners, especially those doing applied work, will have much to gain from Berk′s volume, regardless of their level of statistical sophistication. Graduate students in sociology, education, public policy, and any number of similar fields should also use it. It will also be a useful foil for conventional texts for the teaching of the regression model. I plan to use it for my students as a text, and hope others will do the same."

-- Herbert Smith

"An interesting and lively text, rich in practical wisdom, written for people who do empirical work in the social sciences and their graduate students."

-- David A. Freedman
"This book lives up to its subtitle as a "constructive critique" that complements the more standards "how-to" treatments of regression, and I hope that many students and practitioners will be inspired by it to think harder about the connections between their data analysis, their statistical models, and their social science research goals." —CRIMINAL JUSTICE REVIEW -- Andrew E. Gelman

Richard Berk is Distinguished Professor of Statistics Emeritus at UCLA and currently a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Statistics and in the Department of Criminology. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has served in a professional capacity with a number of organizations such as the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics for the National Research Council and the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council. His research has ranged across a variety of statistical applications in the social and natural sciences.

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ISBN 13	9780761929048
ISBN 10	0761929045
Title	Regression Analysis
Author	Richard A Berk
Series	Advanced Quantitative Techniques In The Social Sciences
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Sage Publications, Inc
Year published	2003-08-28
Number of pages	280
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