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"Series B is mainly intended for analysis of original data of broad interest, novel applications of methodology and development of methods and techniques of immediate practical use"--Foreword to Feb. 2003 issue.

Statistics --- Statistique --- Statistics. --- Statistiek. --- STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY. --- 31.73 mathematical statistics.

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Demographers describe and analyse individual events at multiple levels of observation that range from the individuals themselves to the overall population of interest. In quantitative population studies, one way to streamline investigation is to perform a multilevel statistical analysis using a single model, which improves the accuracy of the estimates and therefore of the results. To that end, this book guides the reader through the first stages of multilevel analysis, from design to implementation, with step-by-step explanations on how to navigate the three most common statistical software environments (Stata®, SAS®, and R). Concrete examples based on census data are provided using an analysis of school enrolment in rural Kenya. Intended for all statistical database users seeking to develop or expand their knowledge of multilevel analysis, this manual details and illustrates the procedures for creating multilevel models and discusses their prerequisites, advantages, and limitations. Suggestions for further reading are also provided.

Demography --- demography --- quantitative data --- study of populations --- computing --- statistical methodology --- multilevel --- Population & demography

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The book presents methods for the objective analysis of poetic language. Common objects of literary studies such as rhythm, semantic explications, interpretation and personal impressions are avoided. Only those properties of poetic texts are taken into account that could be quantified. The major chapters contain the analysis of phonic phenomena (frequency, euphony, assonance, alliteration, aggregation, rhyme), word properties (aspects of frequency, length, richness, word classes, sequences of word properties, characterisations). The synergetic control cycle is the result of the study of mutual links between properties. For all methods both statistical tests (evaluation, comparison), theoretical derivations (models), and examples are presented. The book is dedicated to the work of the famous Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu whose complete work was analysed, which made detailed illustrations of the method possible. The methods can be used mutatis mutandis for any language and text. It is the first comprehensive quantitative analysis of a poetic work.

Romanian literature --- Balkan literature --- Statistical methods. --- Data processing. --- Eminescu, Mihai, --- Eminescu, Mihai --- Eminescu, Mihail --- Eminesco, Michel --- Eminovici, Mihail --- Eminovicz, Michael --- Technique. --- quantitative linguistics. --- quantitative text analysis, poetics, statistical methodology.

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The present volume presents objective methods to detect and analyse various forms of repetitions. Repetition of textual elements is more than a superficial phenomenon. It may even be considered as constitutive for units and relations in a text: on a primary level when no other way exists to establish a unit – as in a musical composition (a motif can be recognised as such only after at least one repetition) – and on a secondary, artistic level, where repetition is a consequence of the transfer of the equivalence principle from the paradigmatic axis to the syntagmatic one as showed by R. Jakobson. The analysis of repetitive elements and structures in texts with objective mathematical means can serve several practical and theoretical purposes, among them: Characterisation of texts by means of parameters (measures, indicators) as taken from established mathematical statistics or specifically constructed ones in individual cases. Comparison of texts on the basis of their quantitative characteristics and classification of the texts by the results. Research for the laws of text, which control the mechanisms connected to text creation. As a remote aim, the construction of a theory of text consisting of a system of text laws. The final attempt of every possible quantitative text analysis is the construction of a text theory. The book illustrates this on examples of such laws and corresponding empirical tests.

Linguistics -- Methodology. --- Linguistics -- Statistical methods. --- Repetition (Rhetoric). --- Writing -- Mathematical models. --- Writing --- Repetition (Rhetoric) --- Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Rhetoric --- Literary style --- Chirography --- Handwriting --- Ciphers --- Penmanship --- Mathematical models --- Statistical methods --- Methodology --- Mathematical models. --- Statistical methods. --- Methodology. --- Linguistics, Statistical --- Statistical linguistics --- Mathematical linguistics --- Statistique linguistique. --- Linguistique --- Méthodologie. --- quantitative linguistics, repetition analysis. --- quantitative text analysis, statistical methodology.

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This paper summarizes the methodology of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project, and related analytical issues. The WGI cover over 200 countries and territories, measuring six dimensions of governance starting in 1996: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption. The aggregate indicators are based on several hundred individual underlying variables, taken from a wide variety of existing data sources. The data reflect the views on governance of survey respondents and public, private, and NGO sector experts worldwide. The WGI also explicitly report margins of error accompanying each country estimate. These reflect the inherent difficulties in measuring governance using any kind of data. Even after taking these margins of error into account, the WGI permit meaningful cross-country and over-time comparisons. The aggregate indicators, together with the disaggregated underlying source data, are available at www.govindicators.org.

Accountability --- Aggregate indicator --- Aggregate indicators --- Composite indicators --- Corruption --- Corruption perceptions --- Country estimate --- Economic Policy --- Good governance --- Governance --- Governance Indicators --- Government effectiveness --- Institutional quality --- Institutions and Governance --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Measuring governance --- National Governance --- Non governmental organizations --- Political stability --- Public Sector Corruption & Anticorruption Measures --- Public Sector Development --- Public sector management --- Regulatory quality --- Rule of law --- Science and Technology Development --- Statistical & Mathematical Sciences --- Statistical methodology --- Transparency --- Unobserved components model --- Worldwide governance indicators