Statistics and statistical analyses have become a key feature of contemporary social science. Social statistics is the use of statistical measurement systems to study human behaviour in a social environment. This can be accomplished through polling a particular group of people, evaluating a particular subset of data obtained about a group of people, or by observation and statistical analysis of a set of data that relates to people and their behaviors. This major reference collection brings together the classic pieces that have framed the often controversial debates of using statistics as a social research method.

VOLUME 1: THE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF AGGREGATE CATEGORICAL DATA
On the Influence of Previous Vaccination in Cases of Smallpox - W. R. Macdonell
Tables for Testing the Goodness of Fit of Theory to Observation - W. Palin Elderton
On The Inheritance in Coat-Colour of Thoroughbred Horses [Grandsire and Grandchildren] - Norman Blanchard
Notes on the Theory of Association of Attributes in Statistics - George Undy Yule
A Further Study of Statistics Relating to Vaccination and Smallpox - W.R. Macdonell
The Law of Ancestral Heredity - Karl Pearson et al
On a Property which Holds Good for all Groupings of a Normal Distribution of Frequency for Two Variables, with Applications to the Study of Contingency-Tables for the Inheritance of Unmeasured Qualities - George Undy Yule
On the Influence of Bias and of Personal Equation in Statistics of Ill-Defined Qualities: An experimental study - George Undy Yule
Reply to Certain Criticisms of Mr G U Yule - Karl Pearson
On a New Method of Determining Correlation, when One Variable is given by Alternative and the other By Multiple Categories - Karl Pearson
On the General Theory of Multiple Contingency with Special Reference to Partial Contingency - Karl Pearson
On the Interpretation of ?2 from Contingency Tables, and the Calculation of P - Ronald A. Fisher
On the Application of the ?2 Method to Association and Contingency Tables, with Experimental Illustrations - George Undy Yule
Statistical Tests of Agreement between Observation and Hypothesis - Ronald A. Fisher
Recent Improvements in Statistical Inference - Harold Hotelling
Contingency Tables Involving Small Numbers and the ?2 Test - Frank Yates
Contingency Table Interactions - Maurice S. Bartlett
Calculation of Chi-Square for Complex Contingency Tables - H.W. Norton
George Udny Yule. 1871-1951 - Frank Yates
On The Hypothesis of No "Interaction" in a Multi-Way Contingency Table - S.N. Roy and Marvin A. Kastenbaum
On Description of Differential Association - David Gold
Calculation of Chi-Square to Test the No Three-Factor Interaction Hypothesis - Marvin A. Kastenbaum And Donald E. Lamphiear
Tests of Significance for 2 X 2 Contingency Tables - Frank Yates
VOLUME 2: STATISTICAL MODELLING OF CATEGORICAL DATA
Measures of Association for Cross Classifications - Leo A. Goodman and William H. Kruskal
Interactions in Multi-Factor Contingency Tables - John N. Darroch
Maximum Likelihood in Three-Way Contingency Tables - M.W. Birch
The Detection of Partial Association, II: The general case - M.W. Birch
How to Ransack Mobility Tables and Other Kinds of Cross-Classification Tables - Leo A. Goodman
A General Model for the Analysis of Surveys - Leo A. Goodman
Log Linear Models for Contingency Tables: A generalization of classical least squares - John Nelder
A Structural Model of the Mobility Table - Robert M. Hauser
How Destination Depends on Origin in the Occupational Mobility Table - Otis Dudley Duncan
Criteria for Determining whether Certain Categories in a Cross-Classification Table should be Combined, with Special Reference to Occupational Categories in an Occupational Mobility Table - Leo A. Goodman
Structural Transformations in the British Class Structure: A log linear analysis of marital endogamy in Rochdale 1856-1964 - Roger Penn and D. Dawkins
Latent Structure Analysis of a Set of Multidimensional Contingency Tables - Clifford C. Clogg and Leo A. Goodman
Exchange, Structure and Symmetry in Occupational Mobility - Michael Sobel et al
Canonical Analysis of Contingency Tables by Maximum Likelihood - Zvi Gilula And Shelby J. Haberman
More Universalism, Less Structural Mobility: The American occupational structure in the 1980s - Michael Hout
The Analysis of Multivariate Contingency Tables by Restricted Canonical and Restricted Association Models - Zvi Gilula and Shelby J. Haberman
Semi-Parametric Estimation in the Rasch Model and Related Exponential Response Models, including a Simple Latent Class Model for Item Analysis - Bruce Lindsay et al
The Impact of Sociological Methodology on Statistical Methodology - Clifford C. Clogg
The Effects of Family Disruption on Social Mobility - Timothy J. Biblarz and Adrian E. Raftery
VOLUME 3: THE ANALYSIS OF LONGITUDINAL DATA
Statistical Inference about Markov Chains - T.W. Anderson and Leo A. Goodman
Statistical Methods for the Mover- Stayer Model - Leo A. Goodman
A Stochastic Model of Social Mobility - Robert McGinnis
Maximum Likelihood from Incomplete Data via the EM Algorithm - A.P. Dempster et al
Dummy Endogenous Variables in a Simultaneous Equation System - James J. Heckman
Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error - James J. Heckman
Statistical Models for Discrete Panel Data - James J. Heckman
The Incidental Parameters Problem and the Problem of Initial Conditions in Estimating a Discrete Time-Discrete Data Stochastic Process - James J. Heckman
Control for Omitted Variables in the Analysis of Panel and Other Longitudinal Data - Richard B. Davies and Robert Crouchley
The Relationship between a Husband¿s Unemployment and his Wife¿s Participation in the Labour Force - Richard B. Davies, Peter Elias and Roger Penn
Models for Sample Selection Bias - Christopher Winship and Robert D. Mare
An Approximate Generalized Linear Model with Random Effects for Informative Missing Data - Dean Follmann and Margaret Wu
Modelling the Drop-Out Mechanism in Repeated-Measures Studies - Roderick J.A. Little
Pseudo-Likelihood for Combined Selection and Pattern-Mixture Models for Incomplete Data - Geert Molenberghs, Bart Michiels and Michael G. Kenward,
Mixed Effects Logistic Regression Models for Longitudinal Binary Response Data with Informative Drop-Out - T. Ten Have, Allen R. Kunselman, Erik P. Pulkstenis and J. Richard Landis
Random Coefficient Models for Binary Longitudinal Responses with Attrition - Marco Alfò and Murray Aitkin
A Transition Model for Longitudinal Binary Data Subject To Nonignorable Missing Data - Paul S. Albert
Missing Covariates in Longitudinal Data with Informative Dropouts: Bias Analysis and Inference - Jason Roy and Xihong Lin
Simple Solutions to the Initial Conditions Problem in Dynamic, Nonlinear Panel Data Models with Unobserved Heterogeneity - Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
VOLUME 4: THE STATISTICAL MODELLING OF ORDINAL DATA AND MULTI-LEVEL ANALYSIS
Identification and Estimation of Age-Period-Cohort Models in the Analysis of Discrete Archival Data - Stephen E. Fienberg and William M. Mason
Regression Models for Ordinal Data [with Discussion] - P. Mccullagh
Social Background and School Continuation Decisions - Robert D. Mare
Measures of Nominal-Ordinal Association - Alan Agresti
Change and Stability in Educational Stratification - Robert D. Mare
Regression and Ordered Categorical Variables - J.A. Anderson
Statistical Modelling Issues In School Effectiveness Studies - Murray Aitkin and Nick Longford
Linear Modelling With Clustered Observations: An illustrative example of earnings in the engineering industry - Richard B. Davies, A. Martin and Roger Penn
A Random-Effects Model for Ordered Categorical Data - Robert Crouchley
The Analysis of Longitudinal Ordinal Data with Nonrandom Drop-Out - Geert Molenberghs, Michael G. Kenward and Emmanuel Lesaffre
Analysis of Nonrandomly Censored Ordered Categorical Longitudinal Data from Analgesic Trials - Lewis B. Sheiner, Stuart L. Beal and Adrian Dunne
Modelling Repeated Measures with Monotonic Ordinal Responses and Misclassification, with Applications to Studying Maturation - Paul S. Albert, Sally A. Hunsbergerand Frank M. Biro
A Hierarchical Latent Variable Model for Ordinal Data from a Customer Satisfaction Survey with "No Answer" Responses - Eric T. Bradlow and Alan M. Zaslavsky
Analysis of Longitudinal Substance Use Outcomes Using Ordinal Random-Effects Regression Models - Donald Hedeker and Robin J. Mermelstein
Mixed Effects Logistic Regression Models for Longitudinal Ordinal Functional Response Data with Multiple-Cause Drop-Out from the Longitudinal Study of Aging - Thomas R. Ten Have, Michael E. Miller, Beth A. Reboussin and Margaret K. James
Modeling Clustered Ordered Categorical Data: A survey - Alan Agresti and Ranjini Natarajan
Joint Regression and Association Modeling Of Longitudinal Ordinal Data - Anders Ekholm et al
Generalized Linear Mixed Models for Ordered Responses in Complex Multilevel Structures: Effects beneath the school or college in education - Anthony Fielding and Min Yang
A Mixed-Effects Regression Model for Longitudinal Multivariate Ordinal Data - Li C. Liu and Donald Hedeker
Modelling Trajectories through the Educational System in North West England - Roger Penn and Damon Berridge
The Dynamics of Perception: Modelling subjective well being in a short panel - Stephen Pudney