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A quantitative tour of the social sciences /
This overview gives an accessible, non-technical sense of how quantitative research is done in the social sciences. Upon finishing this book, the reader should have a sense of the different models and different ways of thinking in economics, history, sociology, political science and psychology.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction and overview
- What's in a number? Definitions of fairness and political representation
- The allure and limitations of mathematical modeling : game theory and trench warfare
- Historical background of quantitative social science
- Sources of historical data
- Historical perspectives on international exchange rates
- Historical data and demography in Europe and the Americas
- Learning from economic data
- Econometric forecasting and the flow of information
- Two studies of interest rates and monetary policy
- Models and theories in sociology
- Explanations of the racial disturbances of the 1960s
- The time series of lynchings in the American South
- Attainment processes in a large organization
- What is political science?
- The politics of Supreme Court nominations : the critical role of the media environment
- Modeling strategy in congressional hearings
- Formulating and testing theories in psychology
- Some theories in cognitive and social psychology
- Signal detection theory and models for trade-offs in decision making
- The potential-outcomes model of causation
- Some statistical tools for causal inference with observational data
- Migration and solidarity.