Hubert M. Blalock

Measurement in the Social Sciences

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Among the frustrations constantly confronting the social scientist are those associated with the general process of measurement. This book is organized so that, one proceeds from problems of data collection to those of data analysis. It represents a series of studies that are deemed to be crucial for the advancement of social science research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 473
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781138527799
• ISBN-10: 1138527793
• Artikelnr.: 70145957

Autorenporträt

Hubert M. Blalock

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
I: Implications of Alternative Data-Collection Approaches
2: A Fully Nonmetric Unfolding Technique: Interval Values from Ordinal Data
3: Social Attitudes: Magnitude Measurement and Theory
4: Relations Between Scales
5: Memory and The Assessment of Behavior
6: Measurement Error in Sociometry
II: Multiple Indicator Approaches
7: An Empirical and Algebraic Analysis of Alternative Techniques for Measuring Unobserved Variables
8: Multiple Indicators: Some Criteria of Selection
9: Quantifying Unmeasured Variables
10: The Causal Approach to Measurement Error in Panel Analysis: Some Further Contingencies
III: Ordinal Measurement
11: Measures of Association for Bivariate Ordinal Hypotheses
12: Ordinal Measures of Association and the General Linear Model
13: Nonparametric Partial Correlation
14: Ordinal Partial Correlation and Causal Inferences
15: Beyond Ordinal Measurement: Weak Tests of Stronger Theories