Living Standards Analytics Development through the Lens of Household Survey Data /

The purpose of this book is to introduce, discuss, illustrate, and evaluate the colorful palette of analytical techniques that can be applied to the analysis of household survey data, with an emphasis on the innovations of the past decade or so. Most of the chapters begin by introducing a methodolog...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Haughton, Dominique (Author), Haughton, Jonathan (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edition:1st ed. 2011.
Series:Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences,
Subjects:
Social sciences-Statistical methods.
Statistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Graphical exploratory methods
  • Sample size issues
  • Beyond linear regression
  • Adjustment for spatial correlation
  • The issue of causality
  • Non-homogeneity/mixtures
  • Bayesian analysis
  • Grouping methods
  • Panel data issues
  • Measures of poverty and inequality
  • Bootstrap
  • Fuzzy methods for poverty measures
  • Combining data sets.

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