| Contextual Analysis Contributor(s): Iversen, Gudmund R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803942729 ISBN-13: 9780803942721 Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc OUR PRICE: $39.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 1991 Annotation: Contextual analysis, the study of the role of the group context on actions and attitudes of individuals, is a useful technique in the study of education, neighborhoods, census tracts, election districts, and the family. However, the effective use of contextual analysis has involved overcoming a number of issues, such as group boundaries, the mobility of the individuals within a group, overlapping groups, missing individual data, and the choice of statistical models. Contextual Analysis offers researchers a guide for selecting the best model to use. Written in a straightforward style, the book explores such topics as contextual analysis with absolute effects, with relative effects, and the choice between regression coefficients as fixed parameters or as random variables. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Research |
| Dewey: 302.3 |
| LCCN: 91022014 |
| Series: Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences |
| Physical Information: 0.21" H x 5.42" W x 8.4" (0.23 lbs) 84 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The effective use of contextual analysis - the study of the role of group context on actions and attitudes of individuals - often involves overcoming a number of issues such as group boundaries, the mobility of individuals within a group, overlapping groups, missing individual data and the choice of statistical models. This straightforward volume offers researchers a guide for selecting the best model to use, and discusses such topics as contextual analysis with absolute effects, with relative effects and the choice between regression coefficients as fixed parameters or as random variables. |