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If I wanted to study a book for 10 hours on political polling and the math it takes to model the results, what book would you suggest?
by forkandwait 10y ago
If I wanted to study a book for 10 hours on political polling and the math it takes to model the results, what book would you suggest?
- mrlatinos 10y agoI'm probably not the right person in the company to ask.
- dlss 10y agoThe two best resources I'm aware of in this area are: * For designing psychology experiments: https://smile.amazon.com/Conducting-Research-Psychology-Measuring-Weight/dp/0495598194 https://smile.amazon.com/Conducting-Research-Psychology-Meas... * For Bayesian modeling and inference: https://smile.amazon.com/Bayesian-Analysis-Chapman-Statistical-Science/dp/1439840954 https://smile.amazon.com/Bayesian-Analysis-Chapman-Statistic... However, unless you are already very knowledgeable in these subjects, it will take longer than 10 hours to understand them. Very much worth the read though.
- trendia 10y agoDepending on his / her statistics knowledge, Gelman could easily take 40 - 100+ hours to really understand.
- forkandwait 10y agoThanks, but that is a somewhat crazy answer. I have a BA in mat with a few upper division stat and prob classes, but desire to do a grad degree in stats (yuck). I just want to read a book about how pollsters practically execute their job.
- sn9 10y agoYou can usually find the methodology analysts like 538 use. The better ones are usually pretty transparent about them.