Andrew S. Fullerton is an associate professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University. His primary research interests include work and occupations, social stratification, and quantitative methods. His work has been published in journals such as Social Forces, Social Problems, Sociological Methods & Research, Public Opinion Quarterly, and Social Science Research. Jun Xu is an associate professor of sociology at Ball State University. His primary research interests include Asia and Asian Americans, social epidemiology, and statistical modeling and programing. His work has been published in journals such as Social Forces, Social Science & Medicine, Sociological Methods & Research, Social Science Research, and The Stata Journal.
The book is intended to be a starter for somebody not familiar with the subject. It was written primarily for social scientists (published in the CRC Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Series) and as such, it can be read easily without any statistical pre-requisites beyond very basic Statistics and some working knowledge of logistic regression. Nevertheless, the book is certainly useful far beyond the social sciences themselves - in particular for epidemiologists, medical researchers and also statisticians of students of Statistics/Biostatistics who want to learn basic facts about ordered regression and perhaps motivate further study of this interesting field. The style of exposition is quite informal and intuitive. ~International Society for Clinical Biostatistics