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"The most user-friendly and authoritative resource on missing data has been completely revised to make room for the latest developments that make handling missing data more effective. The second edition includes new methods based on factored regressions, newer model-based imputation strategies, and innovations in Bayesian analysis. State-of-the-art technical literature on missing data is translated into accessible guidelines for applied researchers and graduate students. The second edition takes an even, three-pronged approach to maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), Bayesian estimation as an alternative to MLE, and multiple imputation. Consistently organized chapters explain the rationale and procedural details for each technique and illustrate the analyses with engaging worked-through examples on such topics as young adult smoking, employee turnover, and chronic pain. The companion website includes datasets and analysis examples from the book, up-to-date software information, and other resources. Subject areas/Key words: advanced quantitative methods, management, survey, longitudinal, structural equation modeling, handling, how to handle, incomplete, multivariate, social research, behavioral sciences, statistical techniques, textbooks, seminars, doctoral courses, multiple imputation, models, MCAR, MNAR, Bayesian Audience: Researchers and graduate students in psychology, education, management, family studies, public health, sociology, and political science."--

In this beautifully written and powerful memoir, author Craig K. Collins ushers readers down a remarkable path - one that wends from the American frontier to present-day suburbia. Along the way, he explores the meaning of a history - of his family's and his country's - that is infused with the culture of the gun. Stops include an Indian massacre at Bad Axe, the siege of Vicksburg, the slaughter of buffalo in Montana, and the discovery of gold in a remote Nevada canyon. The story begins on a hunting trip Collins took with his father and brothers in the early '70s, when he was accidental

Little is known about the effects of transitional justice on the development of the rule of law. In Colombia, this Andean nation has used transitional mechanisms for more than a decade, and as part of the 2016 peace accord it is launching a second wave of transitional trials, a truth commission, amnesties, and reparations. Utilizing a case-study design, this article measures the impact of Colombia's first wave, i.e., the Justice and Peace process, across five key rule of law indicators. Despite expectations in the literature that domestic trials are the primary casual mechanisms in enhancing the rule of law, this analysis finds that in the case of Colombia restorative elements, namely amnesties and reparations, were the drivers of limited change. More comprehensive reform was blocked by structural flaws within Law 975, the government's ever-changing transitional framework, and the absence of the state in former conflict zones.

This report discusses the economic policy that contain or mitigate the negative effects of a deflation caused by a negative demand shock. It also points out the Policy Response to Deflation.

This report is categorized into six categories: (I) Economic Growth and the Gains from Trade, (II) The Economic Significance of the Terms of Trade, (III) What will change the U.S. Economy's Terms of Trade?, (IV) China's effect on the U.S. Terms of Trade, (V) Economics Policy and the terms of trade and (VI) Conclusion.

This report discusses Lost Jobs, Trade, Outsourcing, and wages, A Rising Level of Trade and Economic Well-Being and Implications for Economic Policy.

This report discusses on how an economic policy can indirectly have a positive influence on the economy's terms of trade. It also points out economic growth and the gains from trade.