Correlation and Regression Analysis: A Historian's Guide

by Thomas J. Archdeacon

In Correlation and Regression Analysis Thomas J. Archdeacon provides historians with a practical introduction to the use of correlation and regression analysis. The book concentrates on the kinds of analysis that form the broad range of methods used in the social sciences. It should enable historians to understand and to evaluate critically the quantitative analyses that they are likely to encounter in journal literature and monographs reporting research findings in the social sciences.

352 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994