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Multiway Contingency Tables Analysis for the Social Sciences

• Edited by Thomas D. Wickens

• Price: $55.00
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Pages: 440
• Published by: Psychology Press
• Publication Date: 1st August 1989
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-0378-5

About the Book

This book describes the principles and techniques needed to analyze data that form a multiway contingency table. Wickens discusses the description of association in such data using log-linear and log-multiplicative models and defines how the presence of association is tested using hypotheses of independence and quasi-independence. The application of the procedures to real data is then detailed.

This volume does not presuppose prior experience or knowledge of statistics beyond basic courses in fundamentals of probability and statistical inference. It serves as an ideal reference for professionals or as a textbook for graduate or advanced undergraduate students involved in statistics in the social sciences.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction. Two-way Tables. Models for Three-Way Tables. The Statistical Basis of Sampling and Testing. Fitting and Testing Models. Testing Specific Hypotheses. Predictor-Outcome Models. Analyzing Unstructured Tables. Measures of Effect Size. Structurally Incomplete Tables. Descriptions of Association. Least-Squares Models. Ordered Categories. Appendices: Percentage Points of the Chi-Square Distribution. Bonferroni Chi-Square. Power Chart for Chi-Square Tests. Percentage Points of the Normal Distribution. Percentage Points of the Largest Root of a Wishart Matrix. The Greek Alphabet.