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001 2008054986
003 DLC
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008 081230s2009 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008054986
020 $a9780521861984 (hardback)
020 $a0521861985 (hardback)
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050 00 $aH62$b.Q365 2009
082 00 $a300.72$222
245 02 $aA quantitative tour of the social sciences /$cedited by Andrew Gelman, Jeronimo Cortina.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2009.
300 $axiv, 350 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 327-338) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction 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.
650 0 $aSocial sciences$xMethodology.
650 0 $aSocial sciences.
700 1 $aGelman, Andrew.
700 1 $aCortina, Jeronimo.