Event History Modeling: A Guide for Social Scientists

by Bradford S. Jones and Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier

Book Overview

Event History Modeling, first published in 2004, provides an accessible guide to event history analysis for researchers and advanced students in the social sciences. The substantive focus of many social science research problems leads directly to the consideration of duration models, and many problems would be better analyzed by using these longitudinal methods to take into account not only whether the event happened, but when. The foundational principles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521546737
• ISBN13: 9780521546737
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fills a big void

This is excerpted and slightly modified from a published review (Perspectives on Politics Volume 3, June 2005) I wrote of this book, which I like quite a bit and regularly recommend and assign to my political science graduate students. Event History Modeling: A Guide for Social Scientists provides a broad and in-depth introduction to duration analysis for political scientists and for social scientists in general. This book will instantly become the go-to guide for most political scientists interested in event history analysis and should become a staple on syllabi for graduate courses for years to come. The authors cover a broad range of important topics, employing a combination of mathematical detail and verbal discussion; important concepts are illustrated with examples using political science data that readers can download. For a book on statistical methods, Event History Modeling is quite readable and the authors do a commendable job of presenting a great variety of issues and making clear recommendations.