1st Edition

Models in Statistical Social Research

By G¨otz Rohwer Copyright 2010
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Models in Statistical Social Research provides a comprehensive insight of models used in statistical social research based on statistical data and methods. While traditionally understood statistical models relate to data generating processes which presuppose facts, this book focuses on analytical models which relate to substantial processes generating social facts. It formally develops... Read more

1. Variables and Relations 1.1 Variables and Distributions 1.2 Relations 2. Notions of Structure 2.1 Statistical Notions of Structure 2.2 Taking Relations into Account 3. Processes and Process Frames 3.1 Historical and Repeatable Processes 3.2 Time Series and Statistical Processes 3.3 Stochastic Process Frames 4. Functional Models 4.1 Deterministic Models 4.2 Models with Stochastic Variables 4.3 Exogenous and Unobserved Variables 5. Functional Causality 5.1 Functional Causes and Conditions 5.2 Ambiguous References to Individuals 5.3 Isolating Functional Causes 6. Models and Statistical Data 6.1 Functional Models and Data 6.2 Experimental and Observational Data 6.3 Interventions and Reference Problems 7. Models with Event Variables 7.1 Situations and Events 7.2 Event Models with Time Axes 7.3 Dynamic Causality 8. Multilevel and Population-level Models 8.1 Conceptual Frameworks 8.2 Models of Statistical  Processes 8.3 Functional Causality and Levels

Biography

G¨otz Rohwer is professor of methods of social research and statistics at the Ruhr-Universit¨at Bochum (Germany). He has published books and articles on statistical methods, in particular for longitudinal data analysis.