Applied Behavioral Sciences

Editors: Gilbert, Allan S. (Ed.)
Renders the complex interdisciplinary science of geoarchaeology in simple, understandable terms
Presents a comprehensive compendium that ensures fast access to information
Supports specialists, practitioners and members of the public through definitions, technique descriptions and more
Demonstrates the connections between culture and environment, emphasizing the links between geoscience and behavioral science
Investigates the collaboration of archaeology and earth science to discover past human behavior

This book offers a relatively self-contained presentation of the fundamental results in categorical data analysis, which plays a central role among the statistical techniques applied in the social, political and behavioral sciences, as well as in marketing and medical and biological research. The methods applied are mainly aimed at understanding the structure of associations among variables and the effects of other variables on these interactions.

Building on fundamental results in variational analysis, this monograph presents new and recent developments in the field as well as selected applications. Accessible to a broad spectrum of potential readers, the main material is presented in finite-dimensional spaces. Infinite-dimensional developments are discussed at the end of each chapter with comprehensive commentaries which emphasize the essence of major results, track the genesis of ideas, provide historical comments, and illuminate challenging open questions and directions for future research.