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Title
A quantitative tour of the social sciences
Type
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Monograph
Language
English
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
Classification
LCC: H62 .Q365 2009
DDC: 300.72 full
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bibliography
index
Content
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Table Of Contents
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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A quantitative tour of the social sciences