Regression with Dummy Variables
2nd Edition
Published on 22. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
168 pages
978-1-5443-3458-5 (ISBN)
Description
Regression analysis is one of the most flexible and widely used techniques of quantitative analysis and dummy variables have been central to the growing flexibility and complexity of statistical models. This thoroughly updated Second Edition combines presentation of the principles behind the use of dummy variables, application of these lessons using an extract from the American Community Survey, and visualization of the results. Melissa Hardy helps readers understand the basic distributional properties of dummy variables and how they can be used to interpret their data.
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Series
Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5443-3458-5 (9781544334585)
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Melissa Hardy is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Demography at Penn State University in University Park. She is an alumna of Albright College and Indiana University in Bloomington. Her research focused on aging and the life course, retirement and age-stratified transitions, self-assessed health, and political attitudes using longitudinal data and a range of quantitative techniques. Her published work appears in American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and Demography. She enjoyed teaching social statistics and general linear models to graduate and undergraduates students, using everyday experiences to help them understand the meaning of statistical concepts.