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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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Cet ouvrage expose les fondements théoriques des méthodes classiques de la statistique (estimation et tests) ainsi que des approches introduites plus récemment. Les premiers chapitres sont consacrés aux notions de la théorie des probabilités, nécessaires à la statistique. Puis sont développés les tests et méthodes d'estimation dans les situations paramétriques et non paramétriques. Les modèles de base de la régression sont traités en fin d'ouvrage. Chaque chapitre est accompagné d'exemples concrets, mais aussi d'exercices - plus de 150 au total - dont les corrigés ont été intégrés dans cette deuxième édition. La présentation témoigne d'un réel souci pédagogique de l'auteur qui bénéficie d'une vaste expérience d'enseignement auprès de publics très variés. Les résultats exposés sont, autant que possible, replacés dans la perspective de leur utilité pratique. Le niveau mathématique requis rend ce livre accessible aux étudiants de premier cycle universitaire et aux chercheurs dans les divers domaines des sciences appliquées. Il sera donc utile aux étudiants devant aborder les aspects théoriques de la statistique ou aux utilisateurs, pour les assurer du choix judicieux des méthodes qu'ils emploient.

Statistics. --- Statistical Theory and Methods. --- Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences. --- Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law. --- Mathematical statistics. --- Statistique --- Statistique mathématique --- Statistics as Topic

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Design is everywhere: it influences how we live, what we wear, how we communicate, what we buy, and how we behave. In order for designers to design for the real world, defining strategies rather than just implementing them, they need to learn how to understand and solve complex, intricate and often unexpected problems. This book is a guide to this new creative process. With this book in hand, students of design will: understand and apply the vocabulary and strategies of research methods, learn how to adapt themselves to unfamiliar situations, develop techniques for collaborating with non-designers, find and use facts from diverse sources in order to prove or disprove their ideas, make informed decisions in a systematic and insightful way, use research tools to find new and unexpected design solutions. Research for Designers is an essential toolkit for a design education and a must-have for every design student who is getting ready to tackle their own research.

Production management --- Building design --- Architecture --- Industrial design --- Social sciences --- Design, Industrial --- Research --- Methodology. --- onderzoek --- Design --- Mechanical drawing --- New products --- Wetenschappelijk onderzoek --- Ontwerpen --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Research&delete& --- Methodology

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Powerfully driven by the work practices of consulting firms, the presentation software Microsoft PowerPoint is increasingly used on all levels of business and educational communication. Nevertheless, slideware ranks among the least explored media in communication studies. This study investigates the role of PowerPoint in organizational communication, particularly in terms of a functional dilemma between its application for documentation as opposed to presentation purposes. The theoretical part of the analysis combines insights from both organizational communication studies (J. R. Taylor et al.) and social systems theory (N. Luhmann et al.). The empirical analysis shows that PowerPoint documents created for cross-project learning purposes contribute to an invisibilization rather than a visibilization of decision processes and their contingency. In the light of these results, existing efforts to promote knowledge management based on the learning-from-mistakes principle need to be reconsidered with respect to their realization in communicative practice.

Social Sciences, general. --- Sociology. --- Sociologie --- Knowledge management. --- Microsoft PowerPoint (Computer file). --- Presentation graphics software. --- Management --- Sociology & Social History --- Business & Economics --- Social Sciences --- Social Change --- Management Styles & Communication --- Project management. --- Industrial project management --- Social theory --- Social sciences. --- Communication. --- Social Sciences. --- Communication Studies. --- Social sciences --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization

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"Questions of identity have plagued the field of archaeology since its earliest antiquarian origins. The ability to discover, recover, or uncover a past culture required the assumption of a direct relationship between its material remains and social identity. Artifacts and architectural features alike have been conceptualized as "signatures" or "representations" of specific cultures – from the "Beaker People" of the European Neolithic to the "Georgian" world view of eighteenth century Colonial America. Thus, archaeologists have employed an explicitly material focus in their examinations of identity. Yet, as people move through life they continually shift affiliation from one position to another, dependent on the wider contexts of their interactions. Different forms of material culture may be employed as affiliations shift, and the connotations of any given set of artifacts may change. In this volume the authors explore these overlapping spheres of social affiliation. Social actors belong to multiple identity groups at any moment in their life. It is possible to deploy one or many potential labels in describing the identities of such an actor. Two main axes exist upon which we can plot experiences of social belonging -- the synchronic and the diachronic. Identities can be understood as multiple during one moment (or the extended moment of brief interaction), over the span of a lifetime, or over a specific historical trajectory." - from the Introduction The international group of contributions each illuminate how the various identifiers of race, ethnicity, sexuality, age, class, gender, personhood, health, and/or religion are part of both material expressions of social affiliations, and transient experiences of identity. The Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities: Beyond Identification will be of great interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, curators and other social scientists interested in the mutability of identification through material remains.

Archaeology and history. --- Social archaeology. --- Identity (Psychology) --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- Archaeology --- Historical archaeology --- History and archaeology --- History --- Methodology --- Anthropology/archaeometry. --- Archeologie. --- Archéologie et histoire. --- Archéologie sociale. --- Identiteit. --- Identity (psychology). --- Identité (psychologie). --- Social science --- Social sciences, general. --- Sociale identiteit. --- Archaeology. --- Anthropology. --- Human beings --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Antiquities --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences