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This accessible introduction to data analysis focuses on the interpretation of statistical results, in particular those which come from nonexperimental social research. It will provide social science researchers with the tools necessary to select and evaluate statistical tests appropriate for their research question.

Using a consistent data-set throughout the book to illustrate the various analytic techniques, Michael Lewis-Beck covers topics such as univariate statistics, measures of association, the statistical significance of the relationship between two variables, simple regression...

Repeated surveys -- a technique for asking the same questions to different samples of people -- allows researchers the opportunity to analyze changes in society as a whole. This book begins with a discussion of the classic issue of how to separate cohort, period, and age effects. It then covers methods for modeling aggregate trends; two methods for estimating cohort replacement's contribution to aggregate trends, a decomposition model for clarifying how microchange contributes to aggregate change, and simple models that are useful for the assessment of changing individual-level effects.

It was wonderful to be young and working on Wall Street in the 1980s: never before had so many twenty-four-year-olds made so much money in so little time. After you learned the trick of it, all you had to do was pick up the phone and the money poured in your lap.

This wickedly funny book endures as the best record we have of those heady, frenzied years. In it Lewis describes his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in two short years from Salomon Brothers trainee to Geek (the lowest form of life on the...

Am 28. März 2024 wurde Sam Bankman-Fried nach der Insolvenz seiner Kryptowährungsbörse FTX unter anderem wegen Anlagebetrug und Geldwäsche zu 25 Jahren Haft verurteilt. Noch wenige Jahre zuvor war er als das neue Krypto-Wunderkind gefeiert worden, das sich praktisch über Nacht auf die Forbes-Milliardärsliste katapultiert hatte. Was war geschehen? Bestsellerautor Michael Lewis hatte unbegrenzten Zugang zu Sam Bankman-Fried und seinem inneren Kreis und erzählt nun dessen Geschichte. Er nimmt Sie mit auf eine Reise in die Welt der Kryptowährungen, führt Sie aber auch tief in die...