Analysis of Ordinal Categorical Data, Second Edition
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First published:30 March 2010
Print ISBN:9780470082898 |Online ISBN:9780470594001 |DOI:10.1002/9780470594001
Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.
Book Series:Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
About this book
Statistical science’s first coordinated manual of methods for analyzing ordered categorical
data, now fully revised and updated, continues to present applications and case studies
in fields as diverse as sociology, public health, ecology, marketing, and pharmacy.
Analysis of Ordinal Categorical Data, Second Edition provides an introduction
to basic descriptive and inferential methods for categorical data, giving thorough
coverage of new developments and recent methods. Special emphasis is placed on interpretation
and application of methods including an integrated comparison of the available strategies
for analyzing ordinal data. Practitioners of statistics in government, industry (particularly
pharmaceutical), and academia will want this new edition.
Author Bios
ALAN AGRESTI, PhD, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of
Statistics at the University of Florida and Visiting Professor in the Department of
Statistics at Harvard University. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association
and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Dr. Agresti has published extensively
on the topic of categorical data analysis and has presented lectures and short courses
on the subject in more than thirty countries. He is the author of Categorical Data
Analysis, Second Edition and An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis,
Second Edition, both published by Wiley.