ISBN : 9781032323442
Author : Rachel A. Gordon
Publisher : Routledge
Year : 2024
Language : English
Type : Book
Description : Part 1: Getting ready 1. Considering examples of scholarly publications modeling social and health variables 2. Planning and starting a quantitative research project with existing data Part 2: Describing the data 3. Graphing and summarizing individual variables 4. Introducing population estimation and hypothesis testing 5. Estimating and testing the association between two variables Part 3: Estimating and presenting linear regression models 6. Introducing the linear regression model with two continuous variables 7. Considering nonlinearity and nonconstant variance 8. Including categorical predictor variables 9. Including more than one predictor variable in the model 10. Considering interactions among predictor variables Part 4: Estimating and presenting generalized linear models 11. Introducing the generalized linear regression model 12. Analyzing dichotomous outcomes 13. Analyzing multi-category outcomes and offering a roadmap to additional models