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The Handbook of Quantitative Criminology is designed to be the authoritative volume on methodological and statistical issues in criminology and criminal justice. At a time when this field is gaining in sophistication and dealing with ever more complex empirical problems, this volume seeks to provide readers with a clear and up to date guide to quantitative criminology. Authored by leading scholars in criminology/criminal justice, the Handbook contains 35 chapters on topics in the following key areas: (1) research design, (2) experimental methods, (3) methods for overcoming data limitations, (4) innovative descriptive methods, (5) estimation techniques for theory and policy, (6) topics in multiple regression, and (7) new directions in statistical analysis. The contributions are written to be accessible to readers with a basic background in statistics and research methods, but they also provide a cutting edge view of statistical and methodological problems and questions. This book will be the go-to book for new and advanced methods in the field that will provide overviews of the key issues, with examples and figures as warranted, for students, faculty, and researchers alike.

Social Sciences. --- Criminology & Criminal Justice. --- Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law. --- Methodology of the Social Sciences. --- Social sciences. --- Statistics. --- Criminology. --- Social sciences --- Sciences sociales --- Statistique --- Criminologie --- Methodology. --- Méthodologie --- Criminal statistics. --- Criminology --- Research --- Statistiques criminelles --- Recherche

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Introduction to Applied Bayesian Statistics and Estimation for Social Scientists covers the complete process of Bayesian statistical analysis in great detail from the development of a model through the process of making statistical inference. The key feature of this book is that it covers models that are most commonly used in social science research, including the linear regression model, generalized linear models, hierarchical models, and multivariate regression models, and it thoroughly develops each real-data example in painstaking detail. The first part of the book provides a detailed introduction to mathematical statistics and the Bayesian approach to statistics, as well as a thorough explanation of the rationale for using simulation methods to construct summaries of posterior distributions. Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods—including the Gibbs sampler and the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm—are then introduced as general methods for simulating samples from distributions. Extensive discussion of programming MCMC algorithms, monitoring their performance, and improving them is provided before turning to the larger examples involving real social science models and data. Scott M. Lynch is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Office of Population Research at Princeton University. His substantive research interests are in changes in racial and socioeconomic inequalities in health and mortality across age and time. His methodological interests are in the use of Bayesian stastistics in sociology and demography generally and in multistate life table methodology specifically.

Mathematical statistics --- Social sciences --- Bayesian statistical decision theory --- Sciences sociales --- Statistique bayésienne --- Statistical methods --- Méthodes statistiques --- Bayesian statistical decision theory. --- Social sciences -- Statistical methods. --- Social sciences. --- Social Sciences --- Statistics - General --- Social Sciences - General --- Statistical methods. --- Bayes' solution --- Bayesian analysis --- Statistics. --- Demography. --- Social Sciences. --- Methodology of the Social Sciences. --- Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law. --- Statistics for Social Science, Behavioral Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law. --- Historical demography --- Population --- Vital statistics --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical science --- Mathematics --- Econometrics --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Statistical decision --- Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law. --- Methodology. --- Statistics .

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Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis aims to provide a decisive push to the further development and application of innovative and specific comparative methods for the improvement of policy analysis. To take on this challenge, this volume brings together methodologists and specialists from a broad range of social scientific disciplines and policy fields. The work further develops methods for systematic comparative cases analysis in a small-N research design, with a key emphasis laid on policy-oriented applications. Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis is clearly both a social scientific and policy-driven endeavor; on the one hand, the book engages in an effort to further improve social scientific methods, but on the other hand this effort also intends to provide useful, applied tools for policy analysts and the ‘policy community’ alike. Though quite a variety of methods and techniques are touched upon in this volume, its focus is mainly laid on two recently developed research methods/techniques which enable researchers to systematically compare a limited number of cases; Qualitative Comparative Analysis(QCA) and Fuzzy-Sets (FS).

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De effecten van psychische stoornissen op maat- schappelijk niveau zijn belangwekkend. Er is niet enkel het relatief hoge voorkomen, maar psychische stoornissen hebben ook specifieke gevolgen op korte en lange termijn. Hoewel een aantal Belgische en internationale studies schattingen hebben gemaakt rond psychische stoornissen in Belgie, is de ESEMeD/ WMH studie de eerste en (voorlopig) enige studie die specifiek tot doel heeft de epidemiologie van psychische stoornissen voor de algemene volwassen Belgische bevolking in kaart te brengen. De data gepresenteerd in dit boek bevatten een overzicht van 10 jaar studies van het ESEMeD/WMH project rond verschillende basisthemas uit de psychiatrische epidemiologie: het voorkomen van stoornissen, hun zorggebruik, hun impact op het leven en de comorbiditeit tussen psychische en somatische stoornissen.

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The assessment of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted to and removed from the atmosphere is high on both political and scientific agendas internationally. As increasing international concern and cooperation aim at policy-oriented solutions to the climate change problem, several issues have begun to arise regarding verification and compliance under both proposed and legislated schemes meant to reduce the human-induced global climate impact. The approaches to addressing uncertainty discussed in this volume attempt to improve national inventories or to provide a basis for the standardization of inventory estimates to enable comparison of emissions and emission changes across countries. Several authors use detailed uncertainty analyses to enforce the current structure of the emissions trading system while others attempt to internalize high levels of uncertainty by tailoring the emissions trading market rules. In all approaches, uncertainty analysis is regarded as a key component of national GHG inventory analyses. Topics of interest include: -national greenhouse gas emission inventories -bottom-up versus top-down emission analyses -signal detection and analysis techniques -verification and compliance issues -role of uncertainty in emissions trading schemes -compliance and emissions trading under the Kyoto Protocol Assessment of uncertainty can help improve inventories and manage risk. Through recognizing the importance of identifying and quantifying uncertainties, great strides can be made in the process of Accounting for Climate Change.

Environment. --- Climate Change. --- Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution. --- Environmental Management. --- Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law. --- Economic Policy. --- Environmental sciences. --- Statistics. --- Climatic changes. --- Environmental management. --- Environmental protection. --- Economic policy. --- Sciences de l'environnement --- Statistique --- Climat --- Environnement --- Politique économique --- Changements --- Gestion --- Protection --- Climate change mitigation -- United States. --- Climatic changes -- Risk management -- United States. --- Climatic changes -- United States. --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Meteorology & Climatology --- Greenhouse gases. --- Greenhouse gases --- Government policy. --- GHGs (Greenhouse gases) --- Heat-trapping gases --- Climate change. --- Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts. --- Statistics for Social Science, Behavioral Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law. --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Economics --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Mathematics --- Econometrics --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Environmental aspects --- Gases --- Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law. --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Statistics . --- Global environmental change