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A quantitative tour of the social sciences /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A quantitative tour of the social sciences // edited by Andrew Gelman, Jeronimo Cortina.
other author:	Gelman, Andrew.
Published:	Cambridge ;Cambridge University Press, : 2009.,
Description:	xiv, 350 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
Notes:	Reprinted 2011.
[NT 15003449]:	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.
Subject:	Social sciences - Methodology. -
ISBN:	9780521861984

A quantitative tour of the social sciences /
A quantitative tour of the social sciences /edited by Andrew Gelman, Jeronimo Cortina. - Cambridge ;Cambridge University Press,2009. - xiv, 350 p. :ill. ;24 cm.

Reprinted 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-338) and index.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9780521861984GBP78.99

LCCN: 2008054986Subjects--Topical Terms:

525593
Social sciences
--Methodology.

LC Class. No.: H62 / .Q365 2009

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