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020 9780521680035 (pbk.)
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245 02 A quantitative tour of the social sciences /|cedited by
Andrew Gelman, Jeronimo Cortina
260 Cambridge ;|aNew York :|bCambridge University Press,|c2009
300 xiv, 350 p. :|bill. ;|c24 cm
504 Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-338) and index
505 0 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
590 EAS: YW
650 0 Social sciences|xMethodology
650 0 Social sciences
700 1 Gelman, Andrew
700 1 Cortina, Jeronimo
