"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 Nelson, the text presents research about ..."
Evaluation(8th Edition) A Systematic Approach by PeterH. Rossi, Mark W. Lipsey, Gary T. Henry Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2019 by Sage Publications, Inc ISBN-13: 978-1-5063-0788-6, ISBN: 1-5063-0788-4
"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 coherent framework that not only explo ..."
Under the Gun Weapons, Crime, and Violence in America by PeterH. Rossi Hardcover, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-54001-9, ISBN: 1-138-54001-3
""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 undertaken of criminal acquisition, poss ..."
"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 monographs stemming from the Social an ..."
"在线阅读本书The aspects of this text which we believe are novel, at least in degree, include: an effort to motivate different sections with practical examples and an empirical orientation; an effort to intersperse several easily motivated examples throughout the book and to maintain some continuity in these examples; and the extensive use of Monte Carlo simulations to demonstrate particular aspects of the problems and estimators being conside ..."
Of Human Bonding(1st Edition) Parent-Child Relationas Across the Life Course (Social Institutions and Social Change Series) by Alice S. Rossi, Peter Henry Rossi Paperback, 542 Pages, Published 1990 by Aldine Transaction ISBN-13: 978-0-202-30361-1, ISBN: 0-202-30361-6
"Through the use of specific examples to illustrate evaluation research goals and methods, Thinking About Program Evaluation provides readers with an overview of the science and politics of evaluation research. New to this edition is coverage of meta-analysis, selection models, and instrumental variables. In addition, the authors have expanded the coverage of analysis of data, evaluation when the units of analysis are entire organizatio ..."
Down and Out in America(Updated) The Origins of Homelessness by Peter Henry Rossi Paperback, 255 Pages, Published 1991 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-72829-2, ISBN: 0-226-72829-3
"This collection of essays edited by Huey-tsyh Chen and Peter H. Rossi underscores the importance of theory in program evaluation and analyzes the nature and implications of theory-driven evaluations. Scholars from different disciplines cover a wide range of issues, such as functions of program theory, the interface between theory and methods, strategies for formulating theory, cost and resource constraints, different types of theory-dri ..."
"This book is divided into three parts. Part 1 provides a general background for what follows; it includes both a discussion of the substantive importance of dynamic analyses is sociology and a review of models and methods previously used by sociologists interested in the empirical study of social dynamics. Part 2 contains eight chapters on models and methods for analyzing change in qualitative outcomes; it concentrates mainly on methods ..."
Ghetto Revolts by PeterH. Rossi 172 Pages, Published 2019 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-351-31946-1, ISBN: 1-351-31946-9
"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."
Under the Gun Weapons, Crime, and Violence in America by PeterH. Rossi 342 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-351-30078-0, ISBN: 1-351-30078-4
"Seitz (1972), however, has taken an entirely different approach to the issue, and
because his study is among the more commonly cited, it bears examining in
some detail. As all other researchers in this area, Seitz also has no direct
evidence on the motivations underlying homicidal attacks, and so his refutation of
the Wolfgang argument in favor of Zimring's position is not based on the kind of
direct comparison of motivations that ..."
"Experimental Evidence Peter H. Rossi, Richard A. Berk, Kenneth J. Lenihan ...
Groups 3 and 4 Difference (received financial (did not receive due to Arrest
charge aid) financial aid) Total financial aid Theft crimes (robbery, burglary,
larceny, etc.) ..."
"Applying Heise and Bohrnstedt's (1970) model, in which they adopt Lord and
Novick's definition of reliability as the ratio of true score to observed variance, to (
3.46) yields their estimate of reliability, called Q. Specifically - X'.1V(y) – X-IV(y)h:
#-l X'-1C(yi, yj) where h is the communality" of item i. Although it is easy to
demonstrate that Q is a better estimate of reliability than Cronbach's (1951) a (
Greene & Carmines, 19 ..."
" 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 American Gun War—the perennial struggle ..."
"The aspects of this text which we believe are novel, at least in degree, include: an effort to motivate different sections with practical examples and an empirical orientation; an effort to intersperse several easily motivated examples throughout the book and to maintain some continuity in these examples; and the extensive use of Monte Carlo simulations to demonstrate particular aspects of the problems and estimators being considered. I ..."
Armed and Considered Dangerous A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms by PeterH. Rossi 292 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-351-53121-4, ISBN: 1-351-53121-2
"... permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names
may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification
and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Catalog Number:
2007046172 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wright, James
D. Armed and considered dangerous / James D. Wright and Peter H. Rossi; with
a new introduction by James D. Wright a ..."
"The book that has been a benchmark in evaluation has been further improved and updated. Relied on by over 90,000 readers as the text on how to design, implement and appraise the utility of social programmes, Evaluation has been completely revised to include the latest techniques and approaches, as well as guidelines for how evaluations should be tailored to fit programmes and social contexts. New features in the Sixth Edition include: - ..."