Author : A. Colin Cameron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1064 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 2005-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521848053
The book is oriented to the practitioner.
Author : E. E. Leamer
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 1978-04-24
Category : Mathematics
ISBN :
Offers a radically new approach to inference with nonexperimental data when the statistical model is ambiguously defined. Examines the process of model searching and its implications for inference. Identifies six different varieties of specification searches, discussing the inferential consequences of each in detail.
Author : Adamantios Diamantopoulos
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1446276252
Introducing Lisrel provides a comprehensive introduction to Lisrel for structural equation modeling using a non-technical, user-friendly approach. It shows the major steps associated with the formulation and testing of a model.
Author : Peter Spirtes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1461227488
This book is intended for anyone, regardless of discipline, who is interested in the use of statistical methods to help obtain scientific explanations or to predict the outcomes of actions, experiments or policies. Much of G. Udny Yule's work illustrates a vision of statistics whose goal is to investigate when and how causal influences may be reliably inferred, and their comparative strengths estimated, from statistical samples. Yule's enterprise has been largely replaced by Ronald Fisher's conception, in which there is a fundamental cleavage between experimental and non experimental inquiry, and statistics is largely unable to aid in causal inference without randomized experimental trials. Every now and then members of the statistical community express misgivings about this turn of events, and, in our view, rightly so. Our work represents a return to something like Yule's conception of the enterprise of theoretical statistics and its potential practical benefits. If intellectual history in the 20th century had gone otherwise, there might have been a discipline to which our work belongs. As it happens, there is not. We develop material that belongs to statistics, to computer science, and to philosophy; the combination may not be entirely satisfactory for specialists in any of these subjects. We hope it is nonetheless satisfactory for its purpose.
Author : Peter Kennedy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2008-02-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1405182571
Dieses etwas andere Lehrbuch bietet keine vorgefertigten Rezepte und Problemlösungen, sondern eine kritische Diskussion ökonometrischer Modelle und Methoden: voller überraschender Fragen, skeptisch, humorvoll und anwendungsorientiert. Sein Erfolg gibt ihm Recht.
Author : Henry E. Brady
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442203455
With innovative new chapters on process tracing, regression analysis, and natural experiments, the second edition of Rethinking Social Inquiry further extends the reach of this path-breaking book. The original debate with King, Keohane, and Verba_now updated_remains central to the volume, and the new material illuminates evolving discussions of essential methodological tools. Thus, process tracing is often invoked as fundamental to qualitative analysis, but is rarely applied with precision. Pitfalls of regression analysis are sometimes noted, but often are inadequately examined. And the complex assumptions and trade-offs of natural experiments are poorly understood. The second edition extends the methodological horizon through exploring these critical tools. A distinctive feature of this edition is the online placement of four chapters from the prior edition, all focused on the dialogue with King, Keohane, and Verba. Also posted online are exercises for teaching process tracing and understanding process tracing.
Author : George A. Marcoulides
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 2001-03
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1135657815
The revision of this edited volume introduces the latest issues and developments in SEM techniques. The book provides an understanding and working knowledge of advanced SEM techniques with a minimum of mathematical derivations. Includes cases & examples.
Author : R. Hegselmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9401586861
Model building in the social sciences can increasingly rely on well elaborated formal theories. At the same time inexpensive large computational capacities are now available. Both make computer-based model building and simulation possible in social science, whose central aim is in particular an understanding of social dynamics. Such social dynamics refer to public opinion formation, partner choice, strategy decisions in social dilemma situations and much more. In the context of such modelling approaches, novel problems in philosophy of science arise which must be analysed - the main aim of this book. Interest in social simulation has recently been growing rapidly world- wide, mainly as a result of the increasing availability of powerful personal computers. The field has also been greatly influenced by developments in cellular automata theory (from mathematics) and in distributed artificial intelligence which provided tools readily applicable to social simulation. This book presents a number of modelling and simulation approaches and their relations to problems in philosophy of science. It addresses sociologists and other social scientists interested in formal modelling, mathematical sociology, and computer simulation as well as computer scientists interested in social science applications, and philosophers of social science.
Author : Rick H. Hoyle
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2023-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1462544649
"This accessible volume presents both the mechanics of structural equation modeling (SEM) and specific SEM strategies and applications. The editor, along with an international group of contributors, and editorial advisory board are leading methodologists who have organized the book to move from simpler material to more statistically complex modeling approaches. Sections cover the foundations of SEM; statistical underpinnings, from assumptions to model modifications; steps in implementation, from data preparation through writing the SEM report; and basic and advanced applications, including new and emerging topics in SEM. Each chapter provides conceptually oriented descriptions, fully explicated analyses, and engaging examples that reveal modeling possibilities for use with readers' data. Many of the chapters also include access to data and syntax files at the companion website, allowing readers to try their hands at reproducing the authors' results"--
Author : Duo Qin
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0191668680
Reformation of Econometrics is a sequel to The Formation of Econometrics: A Historical Perspective (1993, OUP) which traces the formation of econometric theory during the period 1930-1960. This book provides an account of the advances in the field of econometrics since the 1970s. Based on original research, it focuses on the reformists' movement and schools of thought and practices that attempted a paradigm shift in econometrics in the 1970s and 1980s. It describes the formation and consolidation of the Cowles Commission (CC) paradigm and traces and analyses the three major methodological attempts to resolve problems involved in model choice and specification of the CC paradigm. These attempts have reoriented the focus of econometric research from internal questions (how to optimally estimate a priori given structural parameters) to external questions (how to choose, design, and specify models). It also examines various modelling issues and problems through two case studies - modelling the Phillips curve and business cycles. The third part of the book delves into the development of three key aspects of model specification in detail - structural parameters, error terms, and model selection and design procedures. The final chapter uses citation analyses to study the impact of the CC paradigm over the span of three and half decades (1970-2005). The citation statistics show that the impact has remained extensive and relatively strong in spite of certain weakening signs. It implies that the reformative attempts have fallen short of causing a paradigm shift.
