Monte Carlo Simulation and Resampling Methods for Social Science
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781452288901
Subjects: Social sciences, methodology; Social sciences, research; Social sciences, statistical methods; Monte carlo method
Description: Taking the topics of a quantitative methodology course and illustrating them through Monte Carlo simulation, this book examines abstract principles, such as bias, efficiency, and measures of uncertainty in an intuitive, visual way. Instead of thinking in the abstract about what would happen to a particular estimator 'in repeated samples', the book uses simulation to actually create those repeated samples and summarise the results.