NCJ Number
59165
Date Published
1979
Length
405 pages
Annotation
METHODS OF SURVEY SAMPLING AND MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS ARE DESCRIBED IN A TEXT DIRECTED TO PROFESSIONALS AND STUDENTS IN THE FIELDS OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING.
Abstract
THE TEXT SEEKS AN INTERMEDIATE GROUP BETWEEN THEOREM PROVING AND A SIMPLISTIC, PRACTICE-ORIENTED APPROACH TO THE USE OF SURVEY SAMPLING AND MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES. SIMPLE ALGEBRA IS USED WHENEVER POSSIBLE, ALTHOUGH A BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF ELEMENTARY PROBABILITY, STATISTICS, CALCULUS, AND ALGEBRA ON THE PART OF THE READER IS ASSUMED. EMPHASIS IS PLACED ON THE CONCEPTS, ASSUMPTIONS, AND LIMITATIONS OF THE VARIOUS METHODS DISCUSSED. UNDER SURVEY SAMPLING, THE TEXT COVERS SUCH TECHNIQUES AS SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING, STRATIFIED SAMPLING, CLUSTER SAMPLING, AND TWO-STAGE AND MULTISTAGE SAMPLING. EACH SAMPLING TECHNIQUE IS DESCRIBED, TOGETHER WITH METHODS FOR COMPUTING POPULATION ESTIMATES AND SAMPLING ERRORS. THE DESIGN OF INSTRUMENTS FOR SURVEYS OF HUMAN POPULATIONS IS ALSO DISCUSSED. UNDER MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS, THE TEXT COVERS LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS, SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS METHODS, CANONICAL CORRELATION, PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS ANALYSIS, ELEMENTARY FACTOR ANALYSIS, DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS, PROBIT ANALYSIS, AND LOGIT ANALYSIS. IN EACH CASE, THE BASIC ASSUMPTIONS OF THE TECHNIQUE ARE DISCUSSED AND PROOFS OF ANALYTICAL RESULTS ARE PROVIDED. THROUGHOUT THE BOOK, ILLUSTRATIONS FROM THE FIELD OF TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ARE PROVIDED. THE TEXT DEALS IN GREATEST DETAIL WITH THE SIMPLER PROCEDURES OF SURVEY SAMPLING AND MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS. IT ALSO PROVIDES THE FIRST COHERENT DISCUSSION IN A TEXTBOOK OF MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES, SETTING THE TECHNIQUES IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS. THE TEXT CAN SERVE AS A TEACHING DEVICE, A RESOURCE TOOL, AND AN INTRODUCTION TO SURVEY SAMPLING AND MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS. AN APPENDIX AND INDEX ARE INCLUDED. (LKM)