Making history count : a primer in quantitative methods for historians / Charles H. Feinstein and Mark Thomas.

By:

Feinstein, C. H

Contributor(s):

Thomas, Mark, 1954-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 547 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

051107798X
9780511077982
0511119771
9780511119774
051107641X
9780511076411
9781139164832
113916483X
9786610162826
6610162824
1107131294
9781107131293
1280162821
9781280162824
0511204914
9780511204913
0511561393
9780511561399

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making history count.DDC classification:

907.2 22

LOC classification:

D16.17 .F45 2002eb

Other classification:

15.03
MR 2100
NB 2800
NB 5600
ND 9400
8

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Contents:

PART I. Elementary statistical analysis: -- Introduction -- Descriptive statistics -- Correlation -- Simple linear regression -- PART II. Samples and inductive statistics: -- Standard errors and confidence intervals -- Hypothesis testing -- Non-parametric tests -- PART III. Multiple linear regression: -- Multiple relationships -- Classical linear regression model -- Dummy variables and lagged values -- PART IV. Further topics in regression analysis: -- Violating the assumptions of the classical model -- Non-linear models and functional forms -- Logit, probit, and tobit models -- PART V. Specifying and interpreting models: four case studies: -- Case studies 1 and 2: unemployment in Britain and emigration from Ireland -- Case studies 3 and 4: the Old Poor Law in England and leaving home in the United States, 1850-60 -- Appendix A. Four data sets -- Appendix B. Index numbers.

Summary: This authoritative guide to quantitative methods is designed to be used as the basic text for taught graduate courses, and upper-level students working on their own. Illustrated with tables, graphs and diagrams, it introduces key topics, and supported by five specific historical data-sets, available electronically in downloadable and manipulatable form.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-538) and indexes.

This authoritative guide to quantitative methods is designed to be used as the basic text for taught graduate courses, and upper-level students working on their own. Illustrated with tables, graphs and diagrams, it introduces key topics, and supported by five specific historical data-sets, available electronically in downloadable and manipulatable form.