Ecological Inference

ISBN: 9780521542807

出版社: Cambridge Univ Pr

出版年: 2004-9

页数: 421

定价: 415.00元

装帧: Pap

内容简介

This collection of essays brings together a diverse group of scholars to survey the latest strategies for solving ecological inference problems in various fields. The last half-decade has witnessed an explosion of research in ecological inference--the process of trying to infer individual behavior from aggregate data. Although uncertainties and information lost in aggregation make ecological inference one of the most problematic types of research to rely on, these inferences are required in many academic fields, as well as by legislatures and the Courts in redistricting, by business in marketing research, and by governments in policy analysis.