Event History Modeling: A Guide for Social Scientists (Analytical Methods for Social Research) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Janet M. Box-steffensmeier, Bradford S. Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Pages: 232
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ISBN: 0521546737
Dewey Decimal Number: 001.432
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Publication Date: March 29, 2004
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Product Description
Here is an accessible, up-to-date guide to event history analysis for researchers and advanced students in the social sciences. The foundational principles of event history analysis are discussed and ample examples are estimated and interpreted using standard statistical packages, such as STATA and S-Plus. Recent and critical innovations in diagnostics are discussed, including testing the proportional hazards assumption, identifying outliers, and assessing model fit. The treatment of complicated events includes coverage of unobserved heterogeneity, repeated events, and competing risks models. The authors point out common problems in the analysis of time-to-event data in the social sciences and make recommendations regarding the implementation of duration modeling methods.
Book Description
Event History Modeling provides an accessible, up-to-date guide to event history analysis for researchers and advanced students in the social sciences. The authors explain the foundational principles of event-history analysis, and analyse numerous examples which they estimate and interpret using standard statistical packages, such as STATA and S-Plus. They review recent and critical innovations in diagnostics, including testing the proportional hazards assumption, identifying outliers, and assessing model fit. They also discuss common problems encountered with time-to-event data, and make recommendations regarding the implementation of duration modeling methods.
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 Fills a big void August 14, 2007
F. Boehmke (Iowa City, IA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
 Don't read this book. October 4, 2006
Loch (Seoul, Korea)
5 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book witnesses the long-standing prejudice that non-math or non-stat people would prefer books which drop all the mathematical or logical gimmichks. I could know nothing about the methods from this book. This book does not provide necessary knowledge. Try Lawless or Lee's book. They employ some mathematics. But don't worry. If you are not a statistics major, you just pick up what you should know for your application.
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