Modern Methods of Data Analysis Author:John Fox, J. Scott Long The contributions to this volume seek to move the standard of statistical analysis and presentation in the social sciences towards an accurate and sensitive representation of data.The traditional use of statistics in the social sciences has followed a rather lock-stepped pattern in which first a specific statistical model is selected for a set o... more »f data, the model is fitted to the data, its parameters tested and the results interpreted. These models, however, make strong assumptions about the sampling, distributional and functional structure of the data. This volume accomplishes its aim of increased accuracy and sensitivity by focusing on four themes: an emphasis on graphical data analysis, the use of computers for doing intensive computations, regression analysis and sampling characteristics of data.« less