Event History Analysis (SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847870163 ISBN 13: 9781847870162

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Event history analysis is an umbrella term for a set of procedures for time series analysis. Event history models focus on the hazard function, which has to do with the probabilities that an event will occur after any given duration. Duration to the hazard of death was the classic example in medical research, but the hazard may have a positive meaning also, such as duration until the event of adoption of an innovation in diffusion research

Over the last two decades, event-history analysis has emerged as a mature analytical tool in the social sciences. This four-volume edited collection consists of a) classic papers that have been key in determining or explicating various subareas of event history analysis, and b) high quality applications that demonstrate the utility of event history analysis, drawn from a wide range of substantive areas.

About this title

About the Author:

Lawrence L. Wu is Director of the Center for Advanced Social Science Research and Professor of Sociology at New York University. He has substantial methodological expertise in event history methods and has given several invited didactic seminars on these methods. His methodological work on event history methods has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Child and Human Development. He is chair-elect of the Population Section of the American Sociological Association, book review editor of Sociological Methods and Research, and series editor (with M. Alvarez and N. Beck) of Analytical Methods for Social Research.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1847870163
• ISBN 13: 9781847870162
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1656
• Editor: Wu Lawrence L.