TY - JOUR
AU - Spitz, Kathleen E.
AB - Reviews 285 1972] 16. Elementary Survey Analysis. By James A. Davis. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 1971. xi, 195 p. 9". £2. (Prentice-Hall Methods of Social Science Series.) This book presents a systematic method of survey analysis based upon the ideas of Paul Lazarsfeld and the work of Leo Goodman and William Kruskal on measures of association. It is intended primarily for the research sociologist with no statistical know­ how. Written in a racy and very readable style, the book proceeds from a useful first chapter on variables and their measurement to a discussion of two variable relationships, their measurement by Yule's Q and the production of confidence limits for Q. After a digression in Chapter 3 on the measurement of association by the "percentage difference" and "Gamma", the core of the approach is reached in Chapters 4 and 5 covering three variable relationships and three variable causal systems. In these chapters and in the two final chapters on "Four Variables" and "(Too) Many Variables" all variables are assumed to be dichotomized and their relationships are measured by Q. As the author points out, however, the method could in principle be extended to explore relationships between ordinal scale variables 
TI - Elementary Survey Analysis
JF - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)
DO - 10.2307/2344337
DA - 2018-12-05
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/elementary-survey-analysis-5NNakd02aS
SP - 285
EP - 285
VL - 135
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