From the contents:
- Introduction, Jana Asher.- The statistics of genocide, Mary Gray and Sharon Marek.- Why estimate direct and indirect casualties from war? The rule of proportionality and causality estimates, Beth Osborne DaPonte.- Statistical thinking and data analysis enhancing human rights work, Jorge Luis Romeu.- Hidden in plain sight: X.X. burials and the desparecidos in the department of Guatemala 1977-1986, Clyde Collins Snow, Fredy Armando, Peccerelli Monterroso, Jose Samuel Susanavar Bolanos, Alan G. Robinson, and Jose Maria Najera Ochoa.- The demography of conflict-related mortality in Timor-Leste (1974-1999): Reflections on empirical quantitative measurement of civilian killings, disappearances, and famine-related deaths, Romesh Silva and Patrick Ball.- Afghan refugee camp surveys: Pakistan 2002, James Bell, David Nolle, Ruth Citrin and Fritz Scheuren.- Metagora: a set of experiments in measurement of democratic governance, Jan-Robert Suisser and Raul Suarez.- Human rights of statisticians and statistics of human rights--early history of the American Statistical Association's committee on scientific freedom and human rights, Thomas B. Jabine and Doug A. Samuelson.- Obtaining evidence for the international criminal court using data nad quantitative analysis, Herbert F. Spirer and William Seltzer.- New issues in human rights statistics, David Banks and Yasmin H. Said.- Statistics and the millennium development goals, Paul J. Fields, David Fitch, Fritz Scheuren, Paul Wasserich and Jana Asher.- Using population data systems to target vulnerable population subgroups and individuals, William Seltzer and Margo Anderson.
EAN/ISBN : 9780387728377
Publisher(s): Springer, Berlin, Springer, New York
Discussed keywords: Menschenrechte, Statistik
Format: ePub/PDF

Author(s): Asher, Jana - Banks, David - Scheuren, Fritz J.