Research Catalog

Title

Quantitative sociology : international perspectives on mathematical and statistical modeling / edited by H.M. Blalock [and others].

Publication

New York : Academic Press, 1975.

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Details

Additional Authors

Blalock, Hubert M.

Description

xii, 643 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Quantitative studies in social relations

Uniform Title

Quantitative studies in social relations

Subject

• Sociology > Mathematical models
• Sociology > Mathematical models
• Mathematik
• Mathematisches Modell
• Soziologie
• Statistik
• Statistisches Modell
• Ökonometrie
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Wiskundige modellen
• Kwantitatieve gegevens
• Sociologie
• Sociology > Methodology
• Sociology > Statistical methods
• Mathematical sociology

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• List of contributors -- Preface to English language edition -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Causal analysis, structure, and change. Diachronic correlation, process analysis and causal analysis / Johan Galtung -- A probabilistic analysis of causality / Patrick Suppes -- Causal interpretations of statistical relationships in social research / Stefan Nowak -- On a general scheme of causal analysis / F.M. Borodkin -- Informational measures of causal influences / I.N. Taganov -- The structure of multidimensional random variables and its utilization in social research / Iu. N. Gavrilets -- Structural parameters of graphs: a theoretical investigation / Tord Høivik and Nils Petter Gleditsch -- On the theory of social dependence / František Charavát and Jaroslav Kučera.
• Part II. Design, measurement, and classification. Representation, randomization, and control / Leslie Kish -- Some linear models for two-wave, two-variable panel analysis, with one-way causation and measurement erro / Otis Dudley Duncan -- Path models with latent variables: the NIPALS approach / Herman Wold -- Indirect measurement in social science: some nonadditive models / H.M. Blalock -- The role of entropy nominal classification / Frank Möller and Vittorio Capecchi -- Pattern recognition methods in sociological research / N.G. Zagoruiko and T.I. Zaslavskaia -- On the problem of reconciling partitions / B.G. Mirkin -- Theoretical considerations and simulation models related to the method of Sonquist and Morgan / Robert Reichardt and B. Schmeikal.
• Part III. Social models: some applications. Comparative statics in sociology: including a mathematical theory of growth and differentiation in organizations / Kenneth C. Land -- A model for the analysis of mobility tables / Raymond Boudon -- Systems of social exchange / James S. Coleman -- The conceptual representation of choice behavior and social interaction / Kullervo Rainio -- Reproductive value: with applications to migration, contraception, and zero population growth / Nathan Keyfitz -- Toward a simulation of urban sprawl / Roger Malm, Gunnar Olsson, and Olaf Wärneryd.

ISBN

• 0121039501
• 9780121039509

LCCN

75020142

OCLC

• ocm01528351
• 1528351
• SCSB-8787939

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library