A quantitative tour of the social sciences
By: [edited by] Andrew Gelman, Jeronimo Cortina.
Contributors: Gelman, Andrew.; Cortina, Jeronimo.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780521861984; 9780521680035
Subjects: Social sciences -- Methodology; Social sciences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview; title: What's in a number? definitions of fairness and political representation; title: The allure and limitations of mathematical modeling : game theory and trench warfare; title: Historical background of quantitative social science; title: Sources of historical data; title: Historical perspectives on international exchange rates; title: Historical data and demography in Europe and the Americas; title: Learning from economic data; title: Econometric forecasting and the flow of information; title: Studies of interest rates and monetary policy; title: Models and theories in sociology; title: Explanations of the racial disturbances of the 1960s; title: The time series of lynchings in the American south; title: Attainment processes in a large organization; title: What is political science?; title: The politics of Supreme Court nominations the critical role of the media environment; title: Modeling strategy in congressional hearings; title: Formulating and testing theories in psychology; title: Some theories in cognitive and social psychology; title: Signal detection theory and models for trade-offs in decision making; title: Jeronimo Cortina; title: Some statistical tools for causal inference with observational data; title: Migration and solidarity.