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Configural Frequency Analysis

Methods, Models, and Applications

• By Alexander von Eye

• Price: $55.00
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Pages: 472
• Published by: Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates)
• Publication Date: 1st June 2002
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-4324-8

About the Book

Configural Frequency Analysis (CFA) provides an up-to-the-minute comprehensive introduction to its techniques, models, and applications. Written in a formal yet accessible style, actual empirical data examples are used to illustrate key concepts. Step-by-step program sequences are used to show readers how to employ CFA methods using commercial software packages, such as SAS, SPSS, SYSTAT, S-Plus, or those written specifically to perform CFA.

CFA is an important method for analyzing results involved with categorical and longitudinal data. It allows one to answer the question of whether individual cells or groups of cells of cross-classifications differ significantly from expectations. The expectations are calculated using methods employed in log-linear modeling or a priori information. It is the only statistical method that allows one to make statements about empty areas in the data space.

Applied and or person-oriented researchers, statisticians, and advanced students interested in CFA and categorical and longitudinal data will find this book to be a valuable resource. Developed since 1969, this method is now used by a large number of researchers around the world in a variety of disciplines, including psychology, education, medicine, and sociology. Configural Frequency Analysis will serve as an excellent text for courses on configural frequency analysis, categorical variable analysis, or analysis of contingency tables. Prerequisites include an understanding of descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, statistical model fitting, and some understanding of categorical data analysis and matrix algebra.

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface. Part I: Concepts and Methods of CFA. Introduction: The Goals and Steps of Configural Frequency Analysis. Log-Linear Base Models for CFA. Statistical Testing in Global CFA. Descriptive Measures for Global CFA. Part II: Models and Applications of CFA. Global Models of CFA. Regional Models of CFA. Comparing k Samples. Part III: Methods of Longitudinal CFA. CFA of Differences. CFA of Level, Variability, and Shape of Series of Observations. Part IV: The CFA Specialty File and Alternative Approaches to CFA. More Facets of CFA. Alternative Approaches to CFA. Part V: Computational Issues. Software to Perform CFA. Part VI: References and Indices. Appendices: A Brief Introduction to Log-Linear Modeling. Table of a*-Levels for the Bonferroni and Holm Adjustments.