Synopses & Reviews
Taking a practical approach that draws on the authors extensive teaching, consulting, and research experiences, Applied Survey Data Analysis provides an intermediate-level statistical overview of the analysis of complex sample survey data. It emphasizes methods and worked examples using available software procedures while reinforcing the principles and theory that underlie those methods.
After introducing a step-by-step process for approaching a survey analysis problem, the book presents the fundamental features of complex sample designs and shows how to integrate design characteristics into the statistical methods and software for survey estimation and inference. The authors then focus on the methods and models used in analyzing continuous, categorical, and count-dependent variables; event history; and missing data problems. Some of the techniques discussed include univariate descriptive and simple bivariate analyses, the linear regression model, generalized linear regression modeling methods, the Cox proportional hazards model, discrete time models, and the multiple imputation analysis method. The final chapter covers new developments in survey applications of advanced statistical techniques, including model-based analysis approaches.
Designed for readers working in a wide array of disciplines who use survey data in their work, this book also provides a useful framework for integrating more in-depth studies of the theory and methods of survey data analysis. A guide to the applied statistical analysis and interpretation of survey data, it contains many examples and practical exercises based on major real-world survey data sets. Although the authors use Stata for most examples in the text, they offer SAS, SPSS, SUDAAN, R, WesVar, IVEware, and Mplus software code for replicating the examples on the book 's website: http: //www.isr.umich.edu/src/smp/asda/
Synopsis
This book provides an overview of methods for analyzing complex sample survey data using statistical software. It emphasizes the practical application of the analysis techniques through detailed worked examples using real survey data. The book uses a variety of software options for the analyses, including Stata, SAS, SPSS, Sudaan, and R. The supplementary website provides software code in each package to assist with sample analyses. Keeping theoretical details to a minimum, the book presents introductory material on complex sample designs and calculation of sampling weights. It also includes a large number of exercises to enable further understanding of the methods described.