Analysis of multivariate social science data (2nd ed.). Boca

When four of the leading researchers in the field of quantitative social sciences team up to write a book together, you can expect nothing less than a brilliant work. That is what the first edition of “Analysis of Multivariate Social Science Data ” from 2002 was, and that’s what the current second edition is. This new edition contains additional chapters on regression analysis, confirmatory factor analysis including structural equation models, and multilevel models. The strength of this book lies in the right mixture of simple mathematical expressions, com-prehensive non-mathematical descriptions of various multivariate approaches, numerous in-teresting real-life data examples (almost half of each chapter is dedicated to examples), and, last but not least, detailed interpretation of the results. As in other Bartholomew books, well-known methods or certain parts of them are, in many cases, presented from a slightly different angle. This makes this book also interesting for experienced researchers, as certain explanations they give often add a new perspective to a particular statistical method. The comprehensive Web resource the authors provide is also commendable. The data sets used in this book can be downloaded from there, and SPSS syntax and output files with th