INTERPRETING ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DATA: A FOUNDATION OF DESCRIPTIVE WINKLER O. W. / STATISTICS Księgarnia

"Interpreting Economic and Social Data" aims at rehabilitating the descriptive function of socio-economic statistics, bridging the gap between today's statistical theory on one hand, and econometric and mathematical models of society on the other.

It does this by offering a deeper understanding of data and methods with surprising insights, the result of the author's six decades of teaching, consulting and involvement in statistical surveys. The author challenges many preconceptions about aggregation, time series, index numbers, frequency distributions, regression analysis and probability, nudging statistical theory in a different direction. "Interpreting Economic and Social Data" also links statistics with other quantitative fields like accounting and geography.

This book is aimed at students and professors in business, economics demographic and social science courses, and in general, at users of socio-economic data, requiring only an acquaintance with elementary statistical theory.

Table of Contents

1 Developments in Socio-Economic Statistics 1

2 From the Facts in Society to Socio-Economic Data 19

3 Structure and Nature of Socio-Economic Data: The Aggregates 35

4 Ratios in the Social Sciences 51

5 Interpreting Longitudinal Data, Part 1 - Looking to the Past 63

6 Longitudinal Analysis, Part 2 - Looking to the Future 87

7 Longitudinal Analysis, Part 3 - Index Numbers 101

8 Cross Sectional Analysis in One Dimension 139

9 Cross Sectional Analysis in More Than One Dimension 165

10 Socio-Economic Statistics and Probability 185

11 The Interface Between Statistics and Accounting 209

12 Socio-Economic Statistics and Geography 219

Afterthoughts 229

A Appendix to Chapter 3 233

B Appendix to Chapter 5 237

C Appendix to Chapter 8 241

D Appendix to Chapter 9 247

E Appendix to Chapter 10 253

Index 261

284 pages, Hardcover

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