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  | | Is American Science in Decline?(1st Edition) by Yu Xie, Alexandra A. Killewald Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2012 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-05242-0, ISBN: 0-674-05242-0 "Alarmists argue that the United States urgently needs more and better-trained scientists to compete with the rest of the world. Their critics counter that, far from facing a shortage, we are producing a glut of young scientists with poor employment prospects. Both camps have issued reports in recent years that predict the looming decline of American science. Drawing on their extensive analysis of national data sets, Yu Xie and Alexandra ..." |
 | | Women in Science(Updated) Career Processes and Outcomes by Yu Xie, Kimberlee A. Shauman Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2006 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-01859-4, ISBN: 0-674-01859-1 " Why do so few women choose a career in science--even as they move into medicine and law in ever-greater numbers? In one of the most comprehensive studies of gender differences in science careers ever conducted, Women in Science provides a systematic account of how U.S. youth are selected into and out of science education in early life, and how social forces affect career outcomes later in the science labor market. Studying the scie ..." |
 | | Marriage and Cohabitation (Population and Development Series) by Arland Thornton, Yu Xie, William G. Axinn Paperback, 456 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79867-7, ISBN: 0-226-79867-4 "Situating their argument in the context of the Western world's five-hundred-year history of marriage, the authors of this work reveal what factors encourage marriage and cohabitation in a contemporary society where marriage and the relationships between women and men have changed dramatically. While many people still choose to marry without first cohabiting, others elect to cohabit with varying degrees of commitment or intentions of eve ..." |
 | | Women in Science(Illustrated) Career Processes and Outcomes by Yu Xie, Kimberlee A. Shauman Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2003 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-01034-5, ISBN: 0-674-01034-5 " Why do so few women choose a career in science--even as they move into medicine and law in ever-greater numbers? In one of the most comprehensive studies of gender differences in science careers ever conducted, Women in Science provides a systematic account of how U.S. youth are selected into and out of science education in early life, and how social forces affect career outcomes later in the science labor market. Studying the scienc ..." |
 | | Sociological Methodology (Volume 39, 2009) by Yu Xie Hardcover, 300 Pages, Published 2009 by Wiley-Blackwell ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-3293-3, ISBN: 1-4443-3293-7 "VARIANCE FUNCTION REGRESSIONS FOR STUDYING INEQUALITY Bruce Western* Deirdre Bloome* Regression-based studies of inequality model only between-group differences, yet often these differences are far exceeded by residual inequality. Residual inequality is usually attributed to measurement error or the influence of unobserved characteristics. We present a model, called variance function regression, that includes covariates for both th ..." |
 | | Statistical Methods for Categorical Data Analysis,(2nd Edition) by Daniel A. Powers, Yu Xie Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2008 by Emerald Group Publishing Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-12-372562-2, ISBN: 0-12-372562-3 "This book provides a comprehensive introduction to methods and models for categorical data analysis and their applications in social science research. An explicit aim of the book is to integrate the transformational and the latent variable approach, two diverse but complementary traditions dealing with the analysis of categorical data. This is the first introductory text to cover models and methods for discrete dependent variables, cros ..." |
 | | Marriage and Cohabitation(1st Edition) (Population and Development Series) by Arland Thornton, Yu Xie, William G. Axinn Hardcover, 456 Pages, Published 2007 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79866-0, ISBN: 0-226-79866-6 "In an era when half of marriages end in divorce, cohabitation has become more commonplace and those who do get married are doing so at an older age. So why do people marry when they do? And why do some couples choose to cohabit? A team of expert family sociologists examines these timely questions in Marriage and Cohabitation, the result of their research over the last decade on the issue of union formation. Situating their argument in ..." |
 | | Sociological Methodology (Volume 37, 2007) by Yu Xie, Cindy Glovinsky Hardcover, 412 Pages, Published 2007 by Wiley-Blackwell ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-7624-8, ISBN: 1-4051-7624-5 "In this, our first volume of Sociological Methodology, we have grouped the articles into four sections into which the papers naturally seemed to fit. The first section is entitled "Statistical Models: Prediction, Model Evaluation, and Missing Data." Papers in this section build on the long-standing tradition in sociology that relies on statistical models based on observational data, and they focus on important issues in prediction, mode ..." |
 | | Quantitative Social Science (SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods series) by Dr Jacqueline Scott, Yu Xie Pasta Dura, 1,720 Pages, Published 2005 by Sage Pubns Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-4129-0740-8, ISBN: 1-4129-0740-3 "This Four-Volume Set constitutes the core of our understanding of contemporary societies, human behaviours, social institutions, and their evolutions in history. The demand for high-quality numerical and statistical social research is expansive and increasing. Often, advances in quantitative methods are discipline specific, and the cross-fertilization of ideas is poor. The aim of this collection is to bring together the best of quant ..." |
 | | Statistical Methods for Categorical Data Analysis(1st Edition) by Daniel A. Powers, Yu Xie, Dan L. Powers, Xu Xie Paperback, 324 Pages, Published 1999 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited ISBN-13: 978-0-12-563736-7, ISBN: 0-12-563736-5 ""Statistical Methods for Categorical Data Analysis" is designed as an accessible reference work and textbook about categorical data (that is, data arising from counts instead of measurement. Examples include data about birth, death, marriage, and so forth). It integrates statistical and econometric approaches to the analysis of limited and categorical dependent variables, thereby offering a practical, mathematically uncomplicated approa ..." |
 | | Into Adulthood A Study of the Effects of Head Start by Sherri Oden, David P. Weikart, Lawrence J. Schweinhart, Sue M. Marcus, Yu Xie Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 2000 by High/Scope Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-57379-089-5, ISBN: 1-57379-089-3 "Describes the background, design, and findings of the Long-Term Benefits of Head Start (LTBHS) study, conducted under the auspices of the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation. This study followed up children at two sites, one in Florida and one in Colorado, 17 years after their participation in the 1970-71 Head Start program. Of interest to educators and policymakers, and especially to program evaluators and researchers carrying o ..." |
 | | Boundary Methods(1st Edition) Elements, Contours, and Nodes (Dekker Mechanical Engineering) by Subrata Mukherjee, Yu Xie Mukherjee Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2005 by Crc Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8247-2599-0, ISBN: 0-8247-2599-9 |
 | | Women in Science by Yu Xie Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-3669-5, ISBN: 0-8047-3669-3 |
 | | Is American Science in Decline? by Yu Xie, Alexandra A. Killewald 248 Pages, Published 2012 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-06504-8, ISBN: 0-674-06504-2 "In a 2010 article provocatively titled “The Real Science Gap,” science journalist Beryl Lieff Benderly quoted economist Richard Freeman and other scholars denying that a science shortage exists. Benderly characterized the loud complaints ..." |
 | | Population and Development Ser. Marriage and Cohabitation by Arland Thornton, Yu Xie, William G. Axinn Published 2010 ISBN-13: 978-1-281-96666-7, ISBN: 1-281-96666-5 |
 | | Population and Development Marriage and Cohabitation by Arland Thornton, Yu Xie, William G. Axinn 456 Pages, Published 2008 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-79868-4, ISBN: 0-226-79868-2 "Klassen, Albert D., Colin J. Williams, Eugene E. Levitt, Laura Rudkin-Miniot, Heather G. Miller, and Sushama Gunjal. 1989. Trends in premarital sexual behavior. In AIDS: Sexual ... Kline, Galena H., Scott M. Stanley, Howard J. Markman, P. Antonio Olmos- Gallo, Michelle St. Peters, Sarah W. Whitton, and Lydia M. Prado. 2004. Timing is everything: Pre-engagement cohabitation and ... Robert R. Edwards and Stephen Spector, 44–56. Alban ..." |
 | | Statistical Methods for Categorical Data Analysis, 2nd Edition by Yu Xie, Daniel Powers 296 Pages, Published 2008 by Emerald Group Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-78190-659-0, ISBN: 1-78190-659-9 "Goldstein, H. (1995). Multilevel statistical models (2nd ed.). London: Edward Arnold. Goldstein, H., & Rasbash, J. (1992). Efficient computational procedures for the estimation of parameters in multilevel models based on iterative generalized least squares. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 13, 63-71 . Goldstein, H. I. (2003). Multilevel statistical models (3rd ed.). London: Edward Arnold. Goodman, L. A. (1972). Some multi ..." |
 | | Handbook of Milk Composition (Food Science and Technology) by Robert Gordon Jensen, Marvin P. Thompson, Yu Xie, Daniel A. Powers Hardcover, 919 Pages, Published 1995 by Academic Press ISBN-13: 978-0-12-384430-9, ISBN: 0-12-384430-4 "This informative treatise offers a concise collection of existing, expert data summarizing the composition of milk. The Handbook of Milk Composition summarizes current information on all aspects of human and bovine milk, including: sampling, storage, composition, as well as specific chapters on major and minor components such as protein, carbohydrates, lipids, electrolytes, minerals, vitamins and hormones. The book also features compre ..." |
 | | The Contentious Public Sphere Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China (Princeton Studies in Contemporary China) by Ya-Wen Lei, Ya-Wen Xie, Yu Xie Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2017 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-16686-5, ISBN: 0-691-16686-2 "Since the mid-2000s, public opinion and debate in China have become increasingly common and consequential, despite the ongoing censorship of speech and regulation of civil society. How did this happen? In The Contentious Public Sphere, Ya-Wen Lei shows how the Chinese state drew on law, the media, and the Internet to further an authoritarian project of modernization, but in so doing, inadvertently created a nationwide public sphere in C ..." |
 | | Sociological Methodology Sociological Methodology V38 by Yu . Xie Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2009 by Blackwell Pub ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-9268-2, ISBN: 1-4051-9268-2 "The 2008 volume of Sociological Methodology continues a 40-year tradition of providing cutting-edge methodology for sociological research." |
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