Exploratory data analysis / Frederick Hartwig, with Brian E. Dearing.
By: Hartwig, Frederick.
Contributor(s): Dearing, Brian E.
Material type: BookSeries: A Sage university paper; Quantitive applications in the social sciences ; ser. no. 07-016.Publisher: Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, 1979Description: 83 p. : ill., graphs ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0803913702.Subject(s): Social sciences -- Statistical methodsDDC classification: 515.8Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 515.8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00074159 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An Introduction to the underlying principles, central concepts, and basic techniques for conducting and understanding exploratory data analysis - with numerous social science examples.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 79-80).
The exploratory perspective -- Looking at data:distributions of single variables -- Looking at data: relationships between variables -- Looking for structure: reexpression -- Multivariate analysis: putting it all together -- The exploratory perspective revisited.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Editor's Introduction (p. 5)
- 1. The Exploratory Perspective (p. 9)
- 2. Looking at Data: Distributions of Single Variables (p. 13)
- Introduction (p. 13)
- Displaying Data: The Stem-and-Leaf (p. 16)
- Summarizing Data (p. 19)
- Resistant Statistics and Number Summaries (p. 19)
- The Box-and-Whisker (p. 23)
- Understanding Data (p. 25)
- Skewness (p. 26)
- Outliers (p. 27)
- Gaps and Multiple Peaks (p. 29)
- Summary (p. 30)
- 3. Looking at Data: Relationships Between Variables (p. 31)
- Introduction (p. 31)
- Displaying Relationships: The Scatter Plot (p. 32)
- Summarizing Relationships (p. 34)
- Fitting a Line (p. 34)
- Smoothing the Data (p. 36)
- Median and Hinge Traces (p. 39)
- Examining Residuals (p. 42)
- Understanding Relationships (p. 46)
- Outliers (p. 46)
- Nonlinear Monotonic Relationships (p. 48)
- Nonmonotonic Relationships (p. 50)
- Summary (p. 51)
- 4. Looking for Structure: Reexpression (p. 52)
- Introduction (p. 52)
- Choosing Reexpressions (p. 58)
- Nonlinear Monotonic Functions (p. 59)
- Nonmonotonic Functions (p. 65)
- Summary (p. 66)
- 5. Multivariate Analysis: Putting It All Together (p. 69)
- Step 1 Univariate Analysis (p. 70)
- Step 2 Bivariate Analysis (p. 71)
- Step 3 Multivariate Analysis (p. 71)
- Step 4 Causal Analysis (p. 72)
- 6. The Exploratory Perspective Revisited (p. 76)
- References (p. 79)
- Glossary (p. 80)