Studying Human Populations: An Advanced Course in Statistics

by Nicholas T. Longford

Book Overview

This is a textbook for graduate students and research workers in social statistics and related subject areas. It follows a novel curriculum developed around the basic statistical activities of sampling, measurement and inference. Statistics is defined broadly as making decisions in the presence of uncertainty that arises as a consequence of limited resources available for collecting information. A connecting link of the presented methods is the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441931562
• ISBN13: 9781441931566
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 474 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"