Richard B Berk

Statistical Learning from a Regression Perspective (Springer Texts in Statistics)

This textbook considers statistical learning applications when interest centers on the conditional distribution of the response variable, given a set of predictors, and when it is important to characterize how the predictors are related to the response. As a first approximation, this can be seen as ...

Thinking about Program Evaluation 2

Through the use of specific examples to illustrate evaluation research goals and methods, Thinking About Program Evaluation provides readers with an overview of the science and politics of evaluation research. New to this edition is coverage of meta-analysis, selection models, and instrumental varia...

Regression Analysis: A Constructive Critique (Advanced Quantitative Techniques in the Social Sciences) (v. 11)

Regression Analysis: A Constructive Critique identifies a wide variety of problems with regression analysis as it is commonly used and then provides a number of ways in which practice could be improved. Regression is most useful for data reduction, leading to relatively simple but rich and precise d...

Criminal Justice Forecasts of Risk: A Machine Learning Approach (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)

Machine learning and nonparametric function estimation procedures can be effectively used in forecasting. One important and current application is used to make forecasts of future dangerousness" to inform criminal justice decision. Examples include the decision to release an individual on parole, de...

By Richard A. Berk - Thinking about Program Evaluation: 2nd (second) Edition

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Statistical Learning from a Regression Perspective (Springer Series in Statistics)

Statistical Learning from a Regression Perspective considers statistical learning applications when interest centers on the conditional distribution of the response variable, given a set of predictors, and when it is important to characterize how the predictors are related to the response. As a firs...

Water Shortage: Lessons in Conservation from the Great California Drought, 1976-77

Regression Analysis: A Constructive Critique

Just Punishments: Federal Guidelines and Public Views Compared

Just Punishments: Federal Guidelines and Public Views Compared

A Measure of Justice: An Empirical Study of Changes in the California Penal Code, 1955-1971

The Roots of Urban Discontent: Public Policy, Municipal Institutions, and the Ghetto

Collective Behavior

Labor & Leisure At Home: Content And Organization Of House Day