Animal Disease Surveillance and Survey Systems: Methods and Applications

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This valuable text presents methods and techniques for conducting an animal disease surveillance program, and developing an animal health monitoring system. The text is a recipe book for these techniques as it explains modern techniques, while emphasizing the fundamentals and principles of using these techniques

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Not bad for a required textbook.......2005-08-04

I am required to have this book for my MVPH. I have (so far) found it easy enough to read. As someone who already works in this field parts of it were a little basic for me and there wasn't enough practical information. On the other hand, if I were new to the discipline I think it would be a useful starting point.

Survey of Text Mining: Clustering, Classification, and Retrieval

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subjective extraction of clusters

Survey of Text Mining: Clustering, Classification, and Retrieval

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ASIN: 0387955631

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Extracting content from text continues to be an important research problem for information processing and management. Approaches to capture the semantics of text-based document collections may be based on Bayesian models, probability theory, vector space models, statistical models, or even graph theory.

As the volume of digitized textual media continues to grow, so does the need for designing robust, scalable indexing and search strategies (software) to meet a variety of user needs. Knowledge extraction or creation from text requires systematic yet reliable processing that can be codified and adapted for changing needs and environments.

This book will draw upon experts in both academia and industry to recommend practical approaches to the purification, indexing, and mining of textual information. It will address document identification, clustering and categorizing documents, cleaning text, and visualizing semantic models of text.

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subjective extraction of clusters.......2006-10-19

The book is relatively brief, given the technical nature of its chapters, each written by different authors. Many clustering methods are described. Most can be seen to have some degree of subjectivity, in defining what ends up in a given cluster. Or whether a cluster even exists or not.

The analysis of Web documents forms a major portion of the book. This data set is vast, continually changing and expanding. Plus, it is noisy. Unlike many clean data sets that might be extracted from a corpus of books, for example. Attention should be paid to methods of automatically extracting information from the Web.

The book does not go much into the higher level problems of defining ontologies. Which are very hard tasks. The closest it seems to get is along the lines of finding similar words in documents. Which is still very useful.

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Accessible volume by one of the best
Outdated
helped with graduate course
Excellent research into survey methodology!

How to Conduct Your Own Survey
Priscilla Salant , and Don A. Dillman
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How to Conduct Surveys: A Step-by-Step Guide

ASIN: 0471012734

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A nuts-and-bolts guide to conducting your own professional-quality surveys without paying professional fees. How can you gauge public support for a cause or test the market for a product or service? What are the best methods for validating opinions for use in a paper or dissertation? A well-documented survey is the answer. But what if you don't have thousands of dollars to commission one? No problem. How to Conduct Your Own Survey gives you everything you need to do it yourself! Without any prior training, you can learn expert techniques for conducting accurate, low-cost surveys. In step-by-step, down-to-earth language, Priscilla Salant and Don A. Dillman give you the tools you need to:

Determine which type of survey is best for you
Estimate the cost of your survey
Conduct mail, telephone, and face-to-face surveys
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Accessible volume by one of the best.......2007-08-12

Dillman's "total design method" is well illustrated in this volume. This work is an accessible introduction to designing one's own survey. The book is written pretty well, too.

Trying to get accurate results is what survey design is all about. This book emphasizes that and then runs through the process, step-by-step.

The book deals with some of the key issues in survey design: (a) what type of survey method (face-to-face, mail, phone), (b) sample selection, (c) construction of questions and the total questionnaire, (d) the logistics of administering the survey, (e) data analysis, (f) reporting the results.

The work concludes with a title that says it all: "Advice, Resources, and Maintaining Perspective."

All in all, a useful and accessible introduction to survey research and how to minimize errors.

Outdated.......2002-08-05

This book was published in 1994, prior to the internet boom. It covers telephone, mail, and face-to-face surveys. It doesn't cover email surveys or internet-based surveys. It also fails to mention scaling or data-types. If you're looking for ideas on questions, or are concerned about sampling techniques, you'll find some info here. This is one of those "partial references": it covers some things, but leaves enough out that you'll need to buy another reference to compliment it. If you're looking for the latest in survey methodology, this book doesn't have it.

helped with graduate course.......2002-01-05

This book helped me with an assignment in a graduate course in marketing. Thus I hold it in high regard, mostly it had examples
of questions that were helpful, there was also some other advice
I hope will get me a good grade.

Excellent research into survey methodology!.......1998-12-20

I'm currently finishing up my MA thesis, and I could not have built a stronger framework for the survey part of my work without Salant's book! The ideas are fresh, tested, and accurate. An excellent book for anyone who wants to conduct a survey and get reliable results.

Practical Methods for Design and Analysis of Complex Surveys (Statistics in Practice)

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Practical Methods for Design and Analysis of Complex Surveys (Statistics in Practice)
Risto Lehtonen , and Erkki Pahkinen
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ASIN: 0470847697

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Large surveys are becoming increasingly available for public use, and researchers are often faced with the need to analyse complex survey data to address key scientific issues. For proper analysis it is also important to be aware of the different aspects of the design of complex surveys. Practical Methods for Design and Analysis of Complex Surveys features intermediate and advanced statistical techniques for use in designing and analysing complex surveys. This extensively updated edition features much new material, and detailed practical exercises with links to a Web site, helping instructors and enabling use for distance learning.

Provides a comprehensive introduction to sampling and estimation in descriptive surveys, including design effect statistic and use of auxiliary data.
Includes detailed coverage of complex survey analysis, including design-based ANOVA and logistic regression with GEE estimation.
Contains much new material, including handling of non-sampling errors, and model-assisted estimation for domains.
Features detailed real-li fe case studies, such as multilevel modeling in a multinational educational survey.
Supported by a Web site containing software codes, real data sets, computerized exercises with solutions, and online training materials.

Practical Methods for Design and Analysis of Complex Surveys provides a useful practical resource for researchers and practitioners working in the planning, implementation or analysis of complex surveys and opinion polls, including business, educational, health, social, and socio-economic surveys and official statistics. In addition, the book is well suited for use on intermediate and advanced courses in survey sampling.

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"Statistical complex survey analysis is a means to analyse the results, and gain information about a large population based on a complex survey of a sample of that population. A complex survey is a sample survey that divides the population into subgroups and collecting information from clusters within each subgroup and combining the results. Since the publication of the first edition in 1994, the field has changed considerably and the topic is now relevant beyond the narrow circle of survey statisticians. With large surveys becoming increasingly available for public use, researchers with little experience in survey methods are often faced with analyzing data from surveys to address scientific and programmatic issues. This practical book fills a niche by providing advanced statistical techniques for use in survey analysis, making complex surveys accessible to those working in statistics, business, economics, and the health and social sciences. "

Standardization and Tacit Knowledge: Interaction and Practice in the Survey Interview

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Standardization and Tacit Knowledge: Interaction and Practice in the Survey Interview

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ASIN: 0471358290

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An interdisciplinary look at interaction in the standardized survey interview

This volume presents a theoretical and empirical inquiry into the interaction between interviewers and respondents in standardized research interviews. The editors include a range of articles that showcase the perspectives of conversation analysts, ethnomethodologists, and survey methodologists, to gain a more complete picture of interaction in the standardized survey interview than was previously available.

This book is the first to focus solely on the interactional substrate or conversational architecture of interviewing. It offers a range of insights into standardized interviewing as interaction and forms a bridge between survey methodology and the study of interaction and tacit practices. The articles are arranged into four subject groups: theoretical orientations, survey recruitment, interaction during the substantive interview, and interaction and survey data quality. Articles include:

Interactions in telephone surveys
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"The writing style is mature and experienced. There is noticeable care in the presentation of materials and appropriate sensitivity to the intended audience. . . . The book categorizes large bodies of wisdom in the conduct of survey research over the past half century and provides ''rules-of-thumb'' guidance to the production, analysis, and consumption of survey data."

--Steve Seitz, University of Illinois

"The authors have provided a well-written update of their textbook, which will be useful as a textbook or supplement in upper-division undergraduate or introductory graduate courses on survey research, statistical data analysis, or research design. The book provides readers with the knowledge that enables them to evaluate the results of survey research. It sensitizes the readers to potential problems that arise from flaws in research design, sampling, questionnaire construction, data collection, coding, data analysis techniques, and improper presentation or interpretation of findings."

--Mike Margolis, University of Cincinnati

Why should we believe the results of surveys based on relatively few interviews? What are the appropriate cautions in interpreting survey reports? Aimed at answering these questions, An Introduction to Survey Research, Polling, and Data Analysis, Third Edition describes how surveys are conducted in such a way that they can be believed, explains how to read statistical reports and analyze data, and provides guidelines that are useful in evaluating polls. Using frequent examples from contemporary, large national surveys and polls as well as from the media, the authors stress understanding tables thoroughly before moving to interval statistics. In addition, they cover survey design, sampling and question-writing steps, interviewing and coding strategies, and survey analysis from frequency distributions and cross-tabulations to control tables and correlation/regression. They also cover the ethics of survey research and how to read and write survey research reports. Readers of this book will learn to distinguish good from bad polls and to better design and conduct their own surveys and polls.

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Survey methods and madness in a simple, low-tech format.......2001-07-28

Surveys are everywhere and poll results are a dime a dozen nowadays. Everyone has their poll statistics to share with you--on the news, in the paper, in magazines, oh, and of course, on the Internet. Have you ever wondered how they get those stratified samples, or how they get the +/- 4% error on those polls you read over coffee in the morning? This book gives you all the basics that you'll ever want to know if you want to interpret polls, polling data, survey data--or just plain understand all the political and behavioral conclusions that are drawn from surveys. If you're in college or grad school, or if you make your living by analyzing market research or survey data, this book is definitely worth the investment. If you actually want to conduct surveys of your own, it's a must-read! But, remember, it's pretty basic. It might not teach you all the statistical pixie dust that you'll need to analyze your data, but it will get you off to the proper start in setting up your research designs. Warning: methodology books can be mind-numbing. That's why I gave it only 4 stars. It's not nearly as mind-numbing as most in its genre, but, hey, it's a methodology book, so it's not exactly a dance on the rooftop.

Survey Overview.......2000-06-12

Statistical Analysis available book It is difficult of us to find statistical book about survey. It help us how to make survey sheet and survey analysis by statisitics. Other survey book is so muck expensive, but this is, I think, good for value. Well I recommend this book other people who try to survey and survey analysis.

Network Epidemiology: A Handbook for Survey Design and Data Collection (International Studies in Demography)

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Over the past two decades, the epidemic of HIV/AIDS has challenged the public health community to fundamentally rethink the framework for preventing infectious diseases. While much progress has been made on the biomedical front in treatments for HIV infection, prevention still relies on behaviour change. This book documents and explains the remarkable breakthroughs in behavioural research design that have emerged to confront this new challenge: the study of partnership networks. Traditionally, public health research focused on the "knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP)" of individuals, an approach designed for understanding health-related behaviour like seat-belt wearing and cigarette smoking. For HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, however, there are at least two people involved in transmission. This may not seem like a big difference, but in fact it changes everything. First, it means that your risk depends on your partners -- and on their partners, and their partners: it depends on your position in the network of partnerships. Consider, for example, the rise of infections among monogamous women. Second, it means that individuals are not free to simply change their behaviour -- condom use, or abstinence, needs to be negotiated with a partner. both the epidemiology of risk and constraints to behaviour are therefore a function of the partnership network. And our ability to design effective prevention strategies depends on our ability to measure and summarize that network. Using the traditional research designs, you would not see this network at all -- you would only see the unconnected nodes. They key to solving this problem lies in Network Analysis, before now a relatively obscure subfield in Sociology. For empirical studies of networks to become feasible, however, many problems had to be solved. This book documents the rapid progress that has been made. It brings together eight pioneering studies that have sought to map the networks that spread infection around the world. Each chapter reviews the questions that drove the study, the changes in methodology that were needed to implement the network survey, the mistakes and successes encountered, and the central findings that the network design made possible. An introduction provides an overview of network survey design, a glossary provides a summary of network terminology, and example questionnaires from each study provide a template for further research. This is a unique and valuable resource for the international public health research community.

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The Survey Handbook 2nd edition
Arlene Fink
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"A complete overview that conveys a sense of the detail needed to do a high quality survey."

--Kathy Sexton-Radek, Elmhurst College

"Provides a good overview of doing surveys with a clear and easy to follow writing style and a variety of examples covering the social and behavioral sciences."

--Carol J. Lancaster, Medical University of South Carolina

"Fink explains the different types of survey instruments and the activities that constitute a typical survey and demonstrates how to organize surveys and estimate their costs. In addition, she discusses such techniques as what types of questions to ask in pilot tests, how to relate survey costs to needs for personnel and time, and how to execute a management plan and a budget for a survey."

--Gerald Albaum, University of Oregon, review in Journal of Marketing Research

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* The characteristics and uses of qualitative surveys

* The steps in a content analysis of qualitative data

* Survey ethics, including the ethical principles to use in survey development and the characteristics of survey research misconduct

* The main components of an informed consent form

"‘Reasonable Resources’ is an excellent way to end this first volume. It provides foreshadowing for the rest of the Kit, yet does not go into too much detail. This material is a valuable reference as an overview (or, planning aid) for the research process."

--David McCaffrey, University of Mississippi

A Survey of Numerical Mathematics, Vol. 2

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A Survey of Numerical Mathematics, Vol. 2
David M. Young , and Robert Todd Gregory
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Volume 2 of two-volume set. Broad self-contained coverage of computer-oriented numerical algorithms for solving various types of mathematical problems in linear algebra, ordinary and partial, differential equations, much more. Exercises.

Analysis of Survey Data (Wiley Series in Survey Methodology)

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ASIN: 0471899879

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This book is concerned with statistical methods for the analysis of data collected from a survey. A survey could consist of data collected from a questionnaire or from measurements, such as those taken as part of a quality control process. Concerned with the statistical methods for the analysis of sample survey data, this book will update and extend the successful book edited by Skinner, Holt and Smith on 'Analysis of Complex Surveys'. The focus will be on methodological issues, which arise when applying statistical methods to sample survey data and will discuss in detail the impact of complex sampling schemes. Further issues, such as how to deal with missing data and measurement of error will also be critically discussed. There have significant improvements in statistical software which implement complex sampling schemes (eg SUDAAN, STATA, WESVAR, PC CARP ) in the last decade and there is greater need for practical advice for those analysing survey data. To ensure a broad audience, the statistical theory will be made accessible through the use of practical examples. This book will be accessible to a broad audience of statisticians but will primarily be of interest to practitioners analysing survey data. Increased awareness by social scientists of the variety of powerful statistical methods will make this book a useful reference.

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"Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the application of sophisticated statistical modelling methods to sample survey data. Analysis of Survey Data aims to provide a solid basis for the statistical theory underpinning these applications. This book brings together two key statistical traditions, statistical modelling - such as regression analysis - and sample survey methods, as used for sample design and estimation. Provides broad coverage of statistical methodology used in the analysis of survey data. Discusses the theoretical foundations of this methodology from a range of perspectives. Covers of a wide range of techniques, including categorical data analysis, generalized linear models, and longitudinal data analysis. Addresses issues of complex sampling and incomplete data. Features examples showing how methods are used in practice. Each chapter is written by a leading expert in the field. Includes an up-to-date bibliography. Analysis of Survey Data is aimed primarily at statisticians interested in metho ds of analysing sample survey data. It should also provide a useful reference to many other survey data analysts in the social sciences and in the public and private sectors."

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Not a practical book.......2007-01-03

I got this book upon recommendation from a colleague who is a statistician. But I'm not a statistician so there is lots of formulas and not any real world examples that I could understand.I had taken may be one or two courses in college about Statistics. This book didn't make any sense to me.

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