Bøger af Tim Futing Liao

The nature of doing science, be it natural or social, inevitably calls for comparison, and statistical methods are at the heart of such comparison. This book covers many topics from the simplest comparison of two means to the more developed statistics, including double generalized linear models and Bayesian, as well as hierarchical methods.

What is the probability that something will occur, and how is that probability altered by a change in an independent variable? To answer these questions, Tim Futing Liao introduces a systematic way of interpreting commonly used probability models. Since much of what social scientists study is measured in noncontinuous ways and, therefore, cannot be analyzed using a classical regression model, it becomes necessary to model the likelihood that an event will occur. This book explores these models first by reviewing each probability model and then by presenting a systematic way for interpreting the results from each.