Cross-Level Inference (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith) - Hardcover

Achen, Christopher H.; Shively, W. Phillips

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226002195 ISBN 13: 9780226002194

Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

In the last several years, new disputes have erupted over the use of group averages from census areas or voting districts to draw inferences about individual social behavior. Social scientists, policy analysts, and historians often have little choice about using this kind of data, but statistical analysis of them is fraught with pitfalls. The recent debates have led to a new menu of choices for the applied researcher. This volume explains why older methods like ecological regression so often fail, and it gives the most comprehensive treatment available of the promising new techniques for cross-level inference.

Experts in statistical analysis of aggregate data, Christopher H. Achen and W. Philips Shively contend that cross-level inference makes unusually strong demands on substantive knowledge, so that no one method, such as Goodman's ecological regression, will fit all situations. Criticizing Goodman's model and some recent attempts to replace it, the authors argue for a range of alternate techniques, including estensions of cross-tabular, regression analysis, and unobservable variable estimators.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226002195
• ISBN 13: 9780226002194
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 258
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