02314cam a2200349 a 4500 110547 20230410105316.0 081230s2009 enka b 001 0 eng 15571563 2008054986 9780521861984 (hardback) 0521861985 (hardback) 9780521680035 (pbk.) 0521680034 (pbk.) (OCoLC)ocn298668995 DLC DLC YDXCP YDX CDX C#P BWX DLC H 61 Q1 2009 300.72 A quantitative tour of the social sciences / edited by Andrew Gelman, Jeronimo Cortina. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. xiv, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 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. Social sciences Methodology. Social sciences. Ciencias Sociales Metodología. Ciencias Sociales. Gelman, Andrew. Cortina, Jeronimo. lcc bk YSL 34094 34094 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-04-10 1 0 H 61 Q1 2009 00000104475 2018-10-24 00:00:00 1 2018-10-24 bk