Interpreting Economic and Social Data A Foundation of Descriptive Statistics /

• Main Author: Winkler, Othmar W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Statistics.; Economics > Statistics.; Economics > Methodology.; Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance.; Methodology and the History of Economic Thought.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68721-4

"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 und...

Table of Contents:

• Developments in Socio-economic Statistics
• The Basics: From the Facts in Society to Socio-economic Data
• Structure and Nature of Socio-economic Data: the Aggregates
• Ratios in the Social Sciences
• Longitudinal Analysis, Part 1 - Looking to the Past
• Longitudinal Analysis, Part 2 - Looking to the Future
• Longitudinal Analysis, Part 3 - Index Numbers
• Cross - Sectional Analysis in One Dimension
• Cross-sectional Analysis in More than One Dimension
• Socio-economic Statistics and Probability
• Statistics and Accounting
• Statistics and Geography.