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| Tables, Figures, Exhibits, and Boxes | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Author | |
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| Introduction | |
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| cross-Tabulations | |
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| What This Chapter Is About | |
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| Introduction to the Book via a Concrete Example | |
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| Cross-Tabulations | |
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| What This Chapter Has Shown | |
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| More on Tables | |
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| What This Chapter Is About | |
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| The Logic of Elaboration | |
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| Suppressor Variables | |
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| Additive and Interaction Effects | |
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| Direct Standardization | |
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| A Final Note on Statistical Controls Versus Experiments | |
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| What This Chapter Has Shown | |
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| Still More on Tables | |
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| What This Chapter Is About | |
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| Reorganizing Tables to Extract New Information | |
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| When to Percentage a Table "Backwards" | |
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| Cross-Tabulations in Which the Dependent Variable Is Represented by a Mean | |
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| Index of Dissimilarity | |
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| Writing About Cross-Tabulations | |
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| What This Chapter Has Shown | |
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| On the Manipulation of Data by Computer | |
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| What This Chapter Is About | |
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| Introduction | |
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| How Data Files Are Organized | |
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| Transforming Data | |
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| Appendix 4 | |
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| A Doing Analysis Using Stata | |
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| Tips on Doing Analysis Using Stata | |
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| Some Particularly Useful Stata 10.0 Commands | |
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| Introduction to Correlation and Regression (Ordinary Least Squares) | |
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| What This Chapter Is About | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Quantifying the Size of a Relationship: Regression Analysis | |
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| Assessing the Strength of a Relationship: Correlation Analysis | |
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| The Relationship Between Correlation and Regression Coefficients | |
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| Factors Affecting the Size of Correlation (and Regression) Coefficients | |
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| Correlation Ratios | |
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| What This Chapter Has Shown | |
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| Introduction to Multiple Correlation and Regression (Ordinary Least Squares) | |
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| What This Chapter Is About | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Worked Example: The Determinants of Literacy in China | |
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| Dummy Variables | |
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| A Strategy for Comparisons Across Groups | |
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| A Bayesian Alternative for Comparing Models | |
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| Independent Validation | |
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| What This Chapter Has Shown | |
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| Multiple Regression Tricks: Techniques for Handling Special Analytic Problems | |
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| What This Chapter Is About | |
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| Nonlinear Transformations | |
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| Testing the Equality of Coefficients | |
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| Trend Analysis: Testing the Assumption of Linearity | |
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| Linear Splines | |
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| Expressing Coefficients as Deviations from the Grand Mean (Multiple Classifi cation Analysis) | |
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| Other Ways of Representing Dummy Variables | |
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| Decomposing the Difference Between Two Means | |
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| What This Chapter Has Shown | |
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| Multiple Imputation of Missing Data | |
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| What This Chapter Is About | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Worked Example: The Effect of Cultural Capital on Educational Attainment in Russia | |
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| What This Chapter Has Shown | |
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| Sample Design and Survey Estimation | |
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| What This Chapter Is About | |
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| Survey Samples | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| What This Chapter Has Shown | |
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| Regression Diagnostics | |
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| What This Chapter Is About | |
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| Introduction | |
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