Overview
- Text for competent practitioners of statistics, not future statisticians
- Suitable as reference
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Statistics (STS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Studying Human Populations is a textbook for graduate students and research workers in social statistics and related subject areas. It follows a novel curriculum developed around the basic statistical activities of sampling, measurement and inference. Statistics is defined broadly as making decisions in the presence of uncertainty that arises as a consequence of limited resources available for collecting information. A connecting link of the presented methods is the perspective of missing information, catering for a diverse class of problems that include nonresponse, imperfect measurement and causal inference. In principle, any problem too complex for our limited analytical toolkit could be converted to a tractable problem if some additional information were available. Ingenuity is called for in declaring such (missing) information constructively, but the universe of problems that we can address is wide open, not limited by a discrete set of procedures.
The monograph aims to prepare the reader for the career of an independent social statistician and to serve as a reference for methods, ideas for and ways of studying human populations: formulation of the inferential goals, design of studies, search for the sources of relevant information, analysis and presentation of results. Elementary linear algebra and calculus are prerequisites, although the exposition is quite forgiving, especially in the first few chapters. Familiarity with statistical software at the outset is an advantage, but it can be developed concurrently with studying the text.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The book provides a useful collection of material at postgraduate-level and beyond under broad themes. … For the wider readership, it can generally serve as a useful, consolidated reference on an extensive variety of topics."(Stephan Haslett, International Statistical Reviews, Vol. 76 (2), 2008)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Studying Human Populations
Book Subtitle: An Advanced Course in Statistics
Authors: Nicholas T. Longford
Series Title: Springer Texts in Statistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73251-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-98735-4Published: 04 December 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3156-6Published: 23 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-73251-0Published: 24 December 2007
Series ISSN: 1431-875X
Series E-ISSN: 2197-4136
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 474
Topics: Demography, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Statistical Theory and Methods, Epidemiology, Psychometrics, Biometrics