Applied Regression Analysis and Generalized Linear Models

Preface About the Author 1. Statistical Models and Social Science 1.1 Statistical Models and Social Reality 1.2 Observation and Experiment 1.3 Populations and Samples I. DATA CRAFT 2. What Is Regression Analysis? 2.1 Preliminaries 2.2 Naive Nonparametric Regression 2.3 Local Averaging 3. Examining Data 3.1 Univariate Displays 3.2 Plotting Bivariate Data 3.3 Plotting Multivariate Data 4. Transforming Data 4.1 The Family of Powers and Roots 4.2 Transforming Skewness 4.3 Transforming Nonlinearity 4.4 Transforming Nonconstant Spread 4.5 Transforming Proportions 4.6 Estimating Transformations as Parameters* II. LINEAR MODELS AND LEAST SQUARES 5. Linear Least-Squares Regression 5.1 Simple Regression 5.2 Multiple…