Bibliographic Details
| Other Authors : |
Gelman Andrew
(Éditeur scientifique),
Cortina Jeronimo
(Éditeur scientifique) |
| Format : |
Book |
| Language : |
anglais |
| Title statement : |
A quantitative tour of the social sciences / edited by Andrew Gelman..., Jeronimo Cortina... |
| Published : |
New York :
Cambridge University Press
, cop. 2009
|
| Physical Description : |
1 vol. (XIV-350 p.) |
| Content : |
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. 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. Jeronimo Cortina. Some statistical tools for causal inference with observational data. Migration and solidarity |
| Subjects : |
|
Nantilus
