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Multivariate Analysis in the Human Services

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  • © 1983

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Authors:
  1. John R. Schuerman

    1. University of Chicago, USA

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Part of the book series: International Series in Social Welfare (ISSW, volume 2)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • John R. Schuerman
    Pages 1-4

  3. Mathematical Preliminaries

    • John R. Schuerman
    Pages 5-23

  4. Multiple Regression I

    • John R. Schuerman
    Pages 25-61

  5. Multiple Regression II

    • John R. Schuerman
    Pages 63-71

  6. More on Matrices

    • John R. Schuerman
    Pages 73-92

  7. Principal Components Analysis

    • John R. Schuerman
    Pages 93-119

  8. Factor Analysis

    • John R. Schuerman
    Pages 121-146

  9. Multivariate Tests of Means

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    Pages 147-165

  10. Discriminant Analysis

    • John R. Schuerman
    Pages 167-176

  11. Other Multivariate Techniques

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    Pages 177-188

  12. Repeated Measures Analysis

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    Pages 189-208

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 267-274
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About this book

Research and evaluation in the human services usually involves a relatively large number of variables. We are interested in phenomena that have many aspects and many causes. The techniques needed to deal with many variables go beyond those of introductory statistics. Elementary procedures in statistics are limited in usefulness to situations in which we have two or three variables. When we have more than that, application of elementary techniques will often yield mis­ leading results. Why are elementary techniques inadequate when applied to many variables? Why, for example, should we not simply interpret a series of correlations of independent and dependent variables? The answer lies in the fact that these correlations are not independent pieces of information. The correlations of vari­ ables x and z with yare affected by the association of x with z. Hence, talk about the "effect" of x on y will be somewhat ambiguous, since we will be in­ cluding in that effect some of the effects of z. We would like to be able to sort out these effects. This is the problem of "estimation," that is, estimating the relationships or effects between variables, taking into account their relationships with other variables.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Chicago, USA

    John R. Schuerman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Multivariate Analysis in the Human Services

  • Authors: John R. Schuerman

  • Series Title: International Series in Social Welfare

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6661-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer-Nijhoff Publishing. 1983

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89838-105-4Published: 31 May 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-6663-5Published: 15 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-6661-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4859

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 276

  • Topics: Political Science, Social Sciences, general

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