Download or read book Drawing Inferences From Self selected Samples written by Howard Wainer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a collection of essays and discussions which serve as an introduction and guide to current research in the area of drawing inferences from self-selected samples. This topic is of direct interest to a professional audience of survey researchers, pollsters, market researchers, policymakers, statisticians, demographers, economists, and sociologists. The essays themselves and their associated critical discussions are clear and careful; the contributors are among the foremost experts in the field.
Download or read book The Collected Works of John W Tukey written by William S. Cleveland and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1988-04-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes a collection of John W. Tukey's papers that demonstrate a number of numerical methods and graphical methods, such as box plots, stem-and-leaf diagrams, and point cloud rotation, for graphics and exploratory data analysis.
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Download or read book Drawing Inferences From Self selected Samples written by Howard Wainer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a collection of essays and discussions which serve as an introduction and guide to current research in the area of drawing inferences from self-selected samples. This topic is of direct interest to a professional audience of survey researchers, pollsters, market researchers, policymakers, statisticians, demographers, economists, and sociologists. The essays themselves and their associated critical discussions are clear and careful; the contributors are among the foremost experts in the field.
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Download or read book Performance Assessment for the Workplace Volume II written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II covers a number of measurement and analytical issues in greater technical detail, including: range restriction adjustments, methods for evaluating multiple sources of error in measurement, comparing alternative measures of performance, and strategies for clustering military occupations.
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