Winkler O.W., Interpreting Economic and Social Data: A Foundation of Descriptive Statistics

Springer – 2009, 272 pages
ISBN: 3540687203, 9783540687207"Interpreting Economic and Social Data" aims at rehabilitating the descriptive function of socio-economic statistics, bridging the gap between today's statistical theory on one hand, and econometric and mathematical models of society on the other. It does this by offering a deeper understanding of data and methods with surprising insights, the result of the author's six decades of teaching, consulting and involvement in statistical surveys. The author challenges many preconceptions about aggregation, time series, index numbers, frequency distributions, regression analysis and probability, nudging statistical theory in a different direction. "Interpreting Economic and Social Data" also links statistics with other quantitative fields like accounting and geography. This book is aimed at students and professors in business, economics demographic and social science courses, and in general, at users of socio-economic data, requiring only an acquaintance with elementary statistical theory.Developments in Socio-Economic Statistics
From the Facts in Society to Socio-Economic Data
Structure and Nature of Socio-Economic Data: The Aggregates
Ratios in the Social Sciences
Interpreting Longitudinal Data, Part 1 – Looking to the Past
Longitudinal Analysis, Part 2 – Looking to the Future
Longitudinal Analysis, Part 3 – Index Numbers
Cross Sectional Analysis in One Dimension
Cross Sectional Analysis in More Than One Dimension
Socio-Economic Statistics and Probability
The Interface Between Statistics and Accounting
Socio-Economic Statistics and Geography
Afterthoughts
Appendix