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  • Down and Out in America

    The Origins of Homelessness

    The most accurate and comprehensive picture of homelessness to date, this study offers a powerful explanation of its causes, proposes short- and long-term solutions, and documents the striking contrasts between the homeless of the 1950s and 1960s and the contemporary homeless population, which is younger and contains more women, children, and blacks. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Evaluation

    A Systematic Approach

    The long-awaited new edition is here!Evaluation: A Systematic Approach, by Peter H. Rossi, Mark W. Lipsey, and Gary T. Henry, is the best-selling comprehensive introduction to the field of program evaluation, covering the range of evaluation research activities used in appraising the design, implementation, effectiveness, and efficiency of social programs. Evaluation domains are presented in a ... Read more

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  • Under the Gun

    Weapons, Crime, and Violence in America

    In 1978, the Social and Demographic Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, received a grant from the National Institute of Justice to undertake a comprehensive review of the literature on weapons, crime, and violence in the United States. The purpose of the project is best described as a "sifting and winnowing" of the claims and counterclaims from both sides of the Great ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Armed and Considered Dangerous

    A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms

    Armed and Considered Dangerous is a book about "bad guys" and their guns. But Wright and Rossi contend that for every suspected criminal who owns and abuses a firearm, a hundred or more average citizens own guns for sport, for recreation, for self-protection, and for other reasons generally regarded as appropriate or legitimate. Armed and Considered Dangerous is the most ambitious survey ever ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Bayesian Statistics and Marketing

    Series series WILEY SERIES IN PROB & STATISTICS/see 1345/6,6214/5
    Fine-tune your marketing research with this cutting-edge statistical toolkitBayesian Statistics and Marketing illustrates the potential for applying a Bayesian approach to some of the most challenging and important problems in marketing. Analyzing household and consumer data, predicting product performance, and custom-targeting campaigns are only a few of the areas in which Bayesian approaches ... Read more

    $96.00 USD

  • The Education of Catholic Americans

    First Published in 2017. The Education of Catholic Americans was a famous, comprehensive study of the effects of Catholic education in America by two very wellknown, heavily published sociologists, Fr. Andrew M. Greeley and Peter H. Rossi. The book was one of many seminal studies of different aspects of life and groups within American society sponsored by the National Opinion Research Center at ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Victims of the Environment

    Loss from Natural Hazards in the United States, 1970–1980

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The research reported in this volume was designed to provide estimates of the extent of damages and injuries from certain natu ral hazards inflicted on households in the United States. In addi tion, it reports on sources of aid proffered to households and the extent to which there are differences among households in the receipt of help. This volume represents the latest installment in a series of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Bayesian Non- and Semi-parametric Methods and Applications

    by Peter Rossi ...
    Series series The Econometric and Tinbergen Institutes Lectures
    This book reviews and develops Bayesian non-parametric and semi-parametric methods for applications in microeconometrics and quantitative marketing. Most econometric models used in microeconomics and marketing applications involve arbitrary distributional assumptions. As more data becomes available, a natural desire to provide methods that relax these assumptions arises. Peter Rossi advocates a ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • Modelling Stock Market Volatility

    Bridging the Gap to Continuous Time

    Edited by Peter H. Rossi ...
    This essay collection focuses on the relationship between continuous time models and Autoregressive Conditionally Heteroskedastic (ARCH) models and applications. For the first time, Modelling Stock Market Volatility provides new insights about the links between these two models and new work on practical estimation methods for continuous time models. Featuring the pioneering scholarship of Daniel ... Read more

    $139.49 USD

  • Ghetto Revolts

    Edited by Peter H. Rossi ...
    For the past decade, transaction, and now Society, has dedicated itself to the task of reporting the strains and conflicts within the American system. The work done in the magazine has crossed disciplinary boundaries. This represents much more than simple cross-disciplinary "team efforts." It embodies rather a recognition that the social world cannot be easily carved into neat academic disciplines ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Handbook of Constraint Programming

    Series series Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
    Constraint programming is a powerful paradigm for solving combinatorial search problems that draws on a wide range of techniques from artificial intelligence, computer science, databases, programming languages, and operations research. Constraint programming is currently applied with success to many domains, such as scheduling, planning, vehicle routing, configuration, networks, and bioinformatics ... Read more

    $193.49 USD

  • Handbook of the Economics of Marketing

    Series Book 1 - Handbooks in Economics
    Handbook of the Economics of Marketing, Volume One: Marketing and Economics mixes empirical work in industrial organization with quantitative marketing tools, presenting tactics that help researchers tackle problems with a balance of intuition and skepticism. It offers critical perspectives on theoretical work within economics, delivering a comprehensive, critical, up-to-date, and accessible ... Read more

    $139.49 USD