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995107
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b749477
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| Title & Author
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A quantitative tour of the social sciences /\ edited by Andrew Gelman, Jeronimo Cortina.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2009.
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1 online resource (xiv, 350 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0511531923
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: 0511532830
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: 0511650493
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: 0511818858
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: 1107196612
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: 9780511531927
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: 9780511532832
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: 9780511533747
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: 9780511650499
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: 9780511818851
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: 9781107196612
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0521680034
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0521861985
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9780521680035
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9780521861984
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-338) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Social sciences-- Methodology.
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Social sciences.
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Methodologie
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Qualitative Sozialforschung
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Methodology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Research.
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Social sciences-- Methodology.
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Social sciences.
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Sozialwissenschaften
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Methodologie.
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Qualitative Sozialforschung.
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Sozialwissenschaften.
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| Dewey Classification
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300.72
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| LC Classification
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H62.Q365 2009eb
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MR 1100rvk
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MR 2000rvk
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| Added Entry
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Cortina, Jeronimo.
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Gelman, Andrew.
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