Research Catalog

Title

Ecological inference : new methodological strategies / edited by Gary King, Ori Rosen, Martin A. Tanner.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• King, Gary, 1958-
• Rosen, Ori.
• Tanner, Martin Abba, 1957-

Description

x, 421 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm.

Summary

"Ecological Inference: New Methodological Strategies brings together a diverse group of scholars to survey the latest strategies for solving ecological inference problems in various fields. The last half decade has witnessed an explosion of research in ecological inference - the attempt to infer individual behavior from aggregate data. The uncertainties and the information lost in aggregation make ecological inference one of the most difficult areas of statistical inference, but such inferences are required in many academic fields, as well as by legislatures and the courts in redistricting, by businesses in marketing research, and by governments in policy analysis."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Analytical methods for social research

Uniform Title

Analytical methods for social research.

Subject

• Social sciences > Statistical methods
• Political statistics
• Inference
• 70.03 methods, techniques and organization of social science research
• Statistik
• Statistische Schlussweise
• Umweltschutz
• Ökologie
• Sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek
• Statistische methoden
• Aggregatie

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : information in ecological inference : an introduction / Gary King, Ori Rosen and Martin A. Tanner -- 1. Prior and likelihood choices in the analysis of ecological data / Jonathan Wakefield -- 2. The information in aggregate data / David G. Steel, Eric J. Beth and Ray L. Chambers -- 3. Using ecological inference for contextual research / D. Stephen Voss -- 4. Extending King's ecological inference model to multiple elections using Markov chain Monte Carlo / Jeffrey B. Lewis -- 5. Ecological regression and ecological inference / Bernard Grofman and Samuel Merrill -- 6. Using prior information to aid ecological inference : a Bayesian approach / J. Kevin Corder and Christina Wolbrecht.

ISBN

• 0521835135
• 9780521835138
• 0521542804
• 9780521542807

LCCN

• 2004045500
• 9780521542807

OCLC

• ocm54767315
• 54767315
• SCSB-9347888

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library