TY  - BOOK
AU  - McDowall, David
TI  - Interrupted time series analysis
T2  - Quantitative applications in the social sciences
SN  - 9780803914933
U1  - 519.550243 
PY  - 1980///
CY  - Beverly Hills
PB  - Sage Publications, Inc.
KW  - Social sciences--Statistical methods
KW  - Time-series analysis
KW  - Social sciences--Mathematical models
N2  - Description

Describes ARIMA or Box Tiao models, widely used in the analysis of interupted time series quasi-experiments, assuming no statistical background beyond simple correlation. The principles and concepts of ARIMA time series analyses are developed and applied where a discrete intervention has impacted a social system.
'...this is the kind of exposition I wished I had had some ten years ago when venturing into the world of autoregressive, moving-average (ARIMA) models of time-series analysis...This monograph nicely lays out a method for assessing the impact of a discrete policy or event of some importance on behavior which can be continuously observed...If widely used, as I hope, it will save a generation of social scientists from the labor of having to learn this methodology the hard way...' -- Helmut Norpoth, State University of New York



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