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Positive Effects Of The Multiple Negative: Explaining The Success Of Black Professional Women, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein Jan 1973

Positive Effects Of The Multiple Negative: Explaining The Success Of Black Professional Women, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein

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To be both black and a woman in American society has most typically meant being cumulatively disadvantaged with regard to positions of power and prestige. Holding these multiple negatively evaluated statuses has meant that black women have clustered at the very bottom of most strata. This paper explores the patterns leading to success of a small minority of black women who have managed to work in occupations of high rank. It points to the special factors which have not only canceled the negative effect of holding statuses of low rank, but which have produced a positive and facilitating context for …


Systematic Biases In Panel Surveys Due To Differential Nonresponse., William (Bill) H. Williams, Colin L. Mallows Phd Sep 1970

Systematic Biases In Panel Surveys Due To Differential Nonresponse., William (Bill) H. Williams, Colin L. Mallows Phd

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Panel surveys involve repeated observations on the same sample units of the population. In some of these studies, systematic biases have appeared. It is shown that these systematic biases can also be he result of the characteristics of the response probabilities.


The Systematic Bias Effects Of Incomplete Responses In Rotation Samples, William (Bill) H. Williams Jan 1970

The Systematic Bias Effects Of Incomplete Responses In Rotation Samples, William (Bill) H. Williams

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Rotation samples are frequently used in continuing surveys in order to obtain estimates of changes in a characteristic over time as well as separate estimates of the characteristic at specific points in time. Rotation designs involve the retention of some sampling units and the replacement of others. It has been observed in some studies that there are systematic changes in the estimate of a characteristic, depending on the frequency of appearance of a rotation group in the sample. It is shown in this paper that these systematic changes must occur provided (1) the probability of a selected unit actually appearing …


Sample Selection And The Choice Of Estimator In Two-Way Stratified Populations, William (Bill) H. Williams Dec 1964

Sample Selection And The Choice Of Estimator In Two-Way Stratified Populations, William (Bill) H. Williams

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No abstract provided.


The Variance Of An Estimator With Post-Stratified Weighting.Pdf, William (Bill) H. Williams Sep 1962

The Variance Of An Estimator With Post-Stratified Weighting.Pdf, William (Bill) H. Williams

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A straight forward procedure for the estimation of the variance of a post-stratified estimator.


Life Insurance?, William (Bill) H. Williams Feb 1954

Life Insurance?, William (Bill) H. Williams

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Should a student buy whole life insurance or term insurance?