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The explanatory power of models : bridging the gap between empirical and theoretical research in the social sciences /

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Empirical research often lacks theory. This book progressively works out a method of constructing models which can bridge the gap between empirical and theoretical research in the social sciences. This might improve the explanatory power of models. The issue is quite novel, and it benefited from a t...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Franck, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2010]
Series:Methodos series ; v. 1.
Subjects:
Social sciences > Statistical methods.
Social sciences > Mathematical models.
Social sciences > Research.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The determinants of infant mortality : how far are conceptual frameworks really modelled? / Godelieve Masuy-Stroobant
  • The role of statistical and formal techniques in experimental psychology / Guy Lories
  • Explanatory models in suicide research : explaining relationships / Anne-Marie Aish-van Vaerenbergh
  • Attitudes towards ethnic minorities and and [sic] support for ethnic discrimination, a test of complementary models / Peer Scheepers, Geneveève Verberk, Albert Felling
  • Computer simulation methods to model macroeconomics / Armand de Callataÿ
  • The explanatory power of Artificial Neural Networks / Michel Verleysen
  • On modelling in human geography / Dominique Peeters
  • The explanatory power of migration models / Marc Termote
  • The role of models in comparative politics / Christine Mironesco
  • Elementary mathematical modelization of games and sports / Pierre Parlebas
  • Computer modelling of theory, explanation for the 21st century / Thomas K. Burch
  • The logicist analysis of explanatory theories in archæology / Jean-Claude Gardin.