Verl.Beschr.: Das Buch liefert eine umfassende Darstellung der deskriptiven und induktiven Statistik sowie moderner Methoden der explorativen Datenanalyse. Dabei stehen inhaltliche Motivation, Interpretation und Verständnis der Methoden im Vordergrund IBM unterstützt durch zahlreiche Grafiken...

In 1986 German federal parental leave and benefit policy was expanded in several ways, extending the potential duration of leave from six to ten months and paying child-rearing benefits to all new mothers regardless of their employment status before childbirth. The potential duration has...

Das Werk gibt eine Einführung in die Kategoriale Regression, die auch für Anwender sehr gut geeignet ist. Neben wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Beispielen, die zahlenmäßig dominieren, finden sich Beispiele aus Biometrie, der medizinischen Statistik, Psychologie und Demographie

In this paper R2-type measures of the explanatory power of multivariate linear and categorical probit models proposed in the literature are reviewed and their deficiencies are discussed. It is argued that a measure of the explanatory power should take into account the components which are...

Summary For panels which are observed over a long time it has to be assumed that the effects of covariates vary across time. An estimation method based on local likelihood principles is proposed which allows to estimate the variation of coefficients in the case of discrete responses. Approximate...