Department of Justice. His principal research activity has been collecting survey and evaluation data on issues of criminal victimization and trauma. Forde is a current advisor to the National Institute for Law and Equity and a past advisor to the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission on best practices to reduce crime.
We're sorry! We don't recognize your username or password. Please try again. The work is protected by local and international copyright laws and is provided solely for the use of instructors in teaching their courses and assessing student learning. You have successfully signed out and will be required to sign back in should you need to download more resources. Out of print. Elementary Statistics in Social Research, 12th Edition. Jack A. Forde, University of North Texas at Dallas. Description Provides an understanding of statistics in the social sciences.
Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers will be able to: Develop an understanding of the importance of statistics in the social sciences. The third edition includes over twenty new sections, including the addition of timely topics, like New York City police stops, exonerations in death-sentence cases, projecting airline costs, and new material on various statistical techniques such as the randomized response survey technique, rare-events meta-analysis, competing risks, and negative binomial regression.
The book consists of sections of exposition followed by real-world cases and case studies in which statistical data have played a role.
The reader is asked to apply the theory to the facts, to calculate results a hand calculator is sufficient , and to explore legal issues raised by quantitative findings.
The authors' calculations and comments are given in the back of the book. As with previous editions, the cases and case studies reflect a broad variety of legal subjects, including antidiscrimination, mass torts, taxation, school finance, identification evidence, preventive detention, handwriting disputes, voting, environmental protection, antitrust, sampling for insurance audits, and the death penalty.
A chapter on epidemiology was added in the second edition. In , the first edition was selected by the University of Michigan Law Review as one of the important law books of the year. Leaving proofs and complicated mathematics behind, the authorportrays the more engaging side of statistics and emphasizes itsrole as a problem-solving tool. In addition, light-heartedcase studies illustrate the application of statistics to real dataanalyses, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of commonlyused techniques.
Written for the growing academic and industrialpopulation that uses statistics in everyday life, The Art ofData Analysis: How to Answer Almost Any Question Using BasicStatistics highlights important issues that often arise whencollecting and sifting through data.
Acknowledging the numerous quantitative analyses of data that are a part of this everyday work, Statistics for Compensation provides a comprehensive guide to the key statistical tools and techniques needed to perform those analyses and to help organizations make fully informed compensation decisions. This self-contained book is the first of its kind to explore the use of various quantitative methods—from basic notions about percents to multiple linear regression—that are used in the management, design, and implementation of powerful compensation strategies.
Drawing upon his extensive experience as a consultant, practitioner, and teacher of both statistics and compensation, the author focuses on the usefulness of the techniques and their immediate application to everyday compensation work, thoroughly explaining major areas such as: Frequency distributions and histograms Measures of location and variability Model building Linear models Exponential curve models Maturity curve models Power models Market models and salary survey analysis Linear and exponential integrated market models Job pricing market models Throughout the book, rigorous definitions and step-by-step procedures clearly explain and demonstrate how to apply the presented statistical techniques.
Each chapter concludes with a set of exercises, and various case studies showcase the topic's real-world relevance. The book also features an extensive glossary of key statistical terms and an appendix with technical details. Data for the examples and practice problems are available in the book and on a related FTP site. Statistics for Compensation is an excellent reference for compensation professionals, human resources professionals, and other practitioners responsible for any aspect of base pay, incentive pay, sales compensation, and executive compensation in their organizations.
It can also serve as a supplement for compensation courses at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels. Throughout this best-selling text, authors Jack Levin, James Alan Fox, and David Forde make statistics accessible to all readers, particularly those without a strong background in mathematics. Throughout the Twelfth Edition, detailed, step-by-step illustrations of statistical procedures help students to better grasp key concepts. In addition to the flexibility offered by this format, Books a la Carte editions offer students great value, as they cost significantly less than a bound textbook.
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Connect with us to learn more. His research interests include, criminology, murder, prejudice and hate, and social psychology. Department of Justice. His principal research activity has been collecting survey and evaluation data on issues of criminal victimization and trauma. Forde is a current advisor to the National Institute for Law and Equity and a past advisor to the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission on best practices to reduce crime. We're sorry! We don't recognize your username or password.
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