Introduction to Survey Research

Spring

Offered:

2020
This is an introduction to survey research and polling. Surveys, generally speaking, address questions that are of interest to political researchers, political actors, corporations, government, and journalists. The scientific principles that underlie survey work come from theoretical and empirical knowledge produced by different fields such as political science, sociology, statistics, psychology, and computer science. Surveys provide researchers a way to measure attitudes, behaviors, values, and norms.

Survival Models

N/A

Offered:

2019
Survival models for the social and biomedical sciences. An occasional course.

Recent Books

Gill, Jeff, and Michelle Torres. Generalized Linear Models: A Unified Approach. Second. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2019. Publisher's Version Abstract

Generalized Linear Models: A Unified Approach provides an introduction to and overview of GLMs, with each chapter carefully laying the groundwork for the next. The Second Edition provides examples using real data from multiple fields in the social sciences such as psychology, education, economics, and political science, including data on voting intentions in the 2016 U.S. Republican presidential primaries. The Second Edition also strengthens material on the exponential family form, including a new discussion on multinomial distribution; adds more information on how to interpret results and make inferences in the chapter on estimation procedures; and has a new section on extensions to generalized linear models.

Software scripts, supporting documentation, data for the examples, and some extended mathematical derivations are available on the authors’ websites as well as through the \texttt{R} package \texttt{GLMpack}. All links are available at www.sagepub.com/gill2e.

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Nikoleta S. Kolovos, Jeff Gill, Peter H. Michelson, Allan Doctor, Mary E. Hartman. Reduction in Mortality Following Pediatric Rapid Response Team Implementation.'' Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 2018.