Event History Modeling : A Guide for Social Scientists (Hardcover)

List of figures; List of tables; Preface; 1. Event history and political analysis; 2. The logic of event history analysis; 3. Parametric models for single-spell duration data; 4. The Cox Proportional Hazards model; 5. Models for discrete data; 6. Issues in model selection; 7. Inclusion of time-varying covariates; 8. Diagnostic methods for the event history model; 9. Some modeling strategies for unobserved heterogeneity; 10. Models for multiple events; 11. Political analysis and event history; Appendix: software for event history analysis; References; Index.