Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences – serie
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Survival Analysis
A New Guide for Social Scientists
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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Quantitative social scientists use survival analysis to understand the forces that determine the duration of events. This Element provides a guideline to new techniques and models in survival analysis, particularly in three areas: non-proportional covariate effects, competing risks, and multi-state …
Bayesian Social Science Statistics: Volume 2
Getting Productive
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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This Element introduces the basics of Bayesian regression modeling using modern computational tools. This Element only assumes that the reader has taken a basic statistics course and has seen Bayesian inference at the introductory level of Gill and Bao (2024). Some matrix algebra knowledge is …
Bayesian Social Science Statistics
From the Very Beginning
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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In this Element, the authors introduce Bayesian probability and inference for social science students and practitioners starting from the absolute beginning and walk readers steadily through the Element. No previous knowledge is required other than that in a basic statistics course. At the end of …
External Validity and Evidence Accumulation
Av Tara Slough, Scott A. Tyson
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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The accumulation of empirical evidence that has been collected in multiple contexts, places, and times requires a more comprehensive understanding of empirical research than is typically required for interpreting the findings from individual studies. We advance a novel conceptual framework where …
A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs
Extensions
Av Matias D. Cattaneo, Nicolas Idrobo m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
302 kr
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In this Element, which continues our discussion in Foundations, the authors provide an accessible and practical guide for the analysis and interpretation of Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs that encourages the use of a common set of practices and facilitates the accumulation of RD-based …
A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs
Extensions
Av Matias D. Cattaneo, Nicolas Idrobo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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In this Element, which continues our discussion in Foundations, the authors provide an accessible and practical guide for the analysis and interpretation of Regression Discontinuity (RD) designs that encourages the use of a common set of practices and facilitates the accumulation of RD-based …
External Validity and Evidence Accumulation
Av Tara Slough, Scott A. Tyson
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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The accumulation of empirical evidence that has been collected in multiple contexts, places, and times requires a more comprehensive understanding of empirical research than is typically required for interpreting the findings from individual studies. We advance a novel conceptual framework where …
Bayesian Social Science Statistics
From the Very Beginning
Inbunden, 2024
892 kr
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In this Element, the authors introduce Bayesian probability and inference for social science students and practitioners starting from the absolute beginning and walk readers steadily through the Element. No previous knowledge is required other than that in a basic statistics course. At the end of …
Bayesian Social Science Statistics: Volume 2
Getting Productive
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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This Element introduces the basics of Bayesian regression modeling using modern computational tools. This Element only assumes that the reader has taken a basic statistics course and has seen Bayesian inference at the introductory level of Gill and Bao (2024). Some matrix algebra knowledge is …
Quantile Modeling for Political Research
Av Xiao Lu
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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Quantile models are widely used across the natural and social sciences to analyze heterogeneous phenomena that conventional mean-based approaches often obscure. Yet, despite their growing importance in many disciplines, their adoption in political science has remained comparatively limited, in part …
Quantile Modeling for Political Research
Av Xiao Lu
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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Quantile models are widely used across the natural and social sciences to analyze heterogeneous phenomena that conventional mean-based approaches often obscure. Yet, despite their growing importance in many disciplines, their adoption in political science has remained comparatively limited, in part …
Practical Guide Estimating Conditional Marginal Effects
Modern Approaches
Av Jiehan Liu, Ziyi Liu m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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Practical Guide Estimating Conditional Marginal Effects
Modern Approaches
Av Jiehan Liu, Ziyi Liu m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
903 kr
Kommande
Twitter as Data
Av Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld
Häftad, 2018
308 kr
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The rise of the internet and mobile telecommunications has created the possibility of using large datasets to understand behavior at unprecedented levels of temporal and geographic resolution. Online social networks attract the most users, though users of these new technologies provide their data …
A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs
Foundations
Av Matias D. Cattaneo, Nicolás Idrobo m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
304 kr
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In this Element and its accompanying second Element, A Practical Introduction to Regression Discontinuity Designs: Extensions, Matias Cattaneo, Nicolás Idrobo, and Rocıìo Titiunik provide an accessible and practical guide for the analysis and interpretation of regression discontinuity (RD) designs …
Unsupervised Machine Learning for Clustering in Political and Social Research
Häftad, 2021
302 kr
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In the age of data-driven problem-solving, applying sophisticated computational tools for explaining substantive phenomena is a valuable skill. Yet, application of methods assumes an understanding of the data, structure, and patterns that influence the broader research program. This Element offers …
Using Shiny to Teach Econometric Models
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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This Element discusses how shiny, an R package, can help instructors teach quantitative methods more effectively by way of interactive web apps. The interactivity increases instructors' effectiveness by making students more active participants in the learning process, allowing them to engage with …
Target Estimation and Adjustment Weighting for Survey Nonresponse and Sampling Bias
Av Devin Caughey, Adam J. Berinsky m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
308 kr
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We elaborate a general workflow of weighting-based survey inference, decomposing it into two main tasks. The first is the estimation of population targets from one or more sources of auxiliary information. The second is the construction of weights that calibrate the survey sample to the population …
Agent-Based Models of Social Life
Fundamentals
Häftad, 2020
308 kr
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Social interactions are rich, complex, and dynamic. One way to understand these is to model interactions that fascinate us. Some of the more realistic and powerful models are computer simulations. Simple, elegant and powerful, tools are available in user-friendly free software to help you design, …
Agent-Based Models of Polarization and Ethnocentrism
Häftad, 2020
304 kr
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Building on the Cambridge Element Agent Based Models of Social Life: Fundamentals (Cambridge, 2020), we move on to the next level. We do this by building agent based models of polarization and ethnocentrism. In the process, we develop: stochastic models, which add a crucial element of uncertainty …
Adaptive Inventories
A Practical Guide for Applied Researchers
Av Jacob M. Montgomery, Erin L. Rossiter
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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The goal of this Element is to provide a detailed introduction to adaptive inventories, an approach to making surveys adjust to respondents' answers dynamically. This method can help survey researchers measure important latent traits or attitudes accurately while minimizing the number of questions …
Images as Data for Social Science Research
An Introduction to Convolutional Neural Nets for Image Classification
Av Nora Webb Williams, Andreu Casas m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
302 kr
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Images play a crucial role in shaping and reflecting political life. Digitization has vastly increased the presence of such images in daily life, creating valuable new research opportunities for social scientists. We show how recent innovations in computer vision methods can substantially lower the …
Interpreting Discrete Choice Models
Häftad, 2022
302 kr
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In discrete choice models the relationships between the independent variables and the choice probabilities are nonlinear, depending on both the value of the particular independent variable being interpreted and the values of the other independent variables. Thus, interpreting the magnitude of the …
Text Analysis in Python for Social Scientists
Discovery and Exploration
Av Dirk Hovy
Häftad, 2021
302 kr
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Text is everywhere, and it is a fantastic resource for social scientists. However, because it is so abundant, and because language is so variable, it is often difficult to extract the information we want. There is a whole subfield of AI concerned with text analysis (natural language processing). …
Text Analysis in Python for Social Scientists
Prediction and Classification
Av Dirk Hovy
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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Text contains a wealth of information about about a wide variety of sociocultural constructs. Automated prediction methods can infer these quantities (sentiment analysis is probably the most well-known application). However, there is virtually no limit to the kinds of things we can predict from …
Modern Dimension Reduction
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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Data are not only ubiquitous in society, but are increasingly complex both in size and dimensionality. Dimension reduction offers researchers and scholars the ability to make such complex, high dimensional data spaces simpler and more manageable. This Element offers readers a suite of modern …
