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  title info:
    title: Formal modeling in social science
  name:
    name part: Mershon, Carol
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Shvetsova, Olga (Olga Vitalievna)
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 227 pages) illustrations
  abstract: A formal model in the social sciences builds explanations when it structures the reasoning underlying a theoretical argument, opens venues for controlled experimentation, and can lead to hypotheses. Yet more importantly, models evaluate theory, build theory, and enhance conjectures. Formal Modeling in Social Science addresses the varied helpful roles of formal models and goes further to take up more fundamental considerations of epistemology and methodology. The authors integrate the exposition of the epistemology and the methodology of modeling and argue that these two reinforce each other. They illustrate the process of designing an original model suited to the puzzle at hand, using multiple methods in diverse substantive areas of inquiry. The authors also emphasize the crucial, though underappreciated, role of a narrative in the progression from theory to model. Transparency of assumptions and steps in a model means that any analyst will reach equivalent predictions whenever she replicates the argument. Hence, models enable theoretical replication, essential in the accumulation of knowledge. Formal Modeling in Social Science speaks to scholars in different career stages and disciplines and with varying expertise in modeling.
  note: Carol Mershon and Olga Shvetsova.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-227) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Mathematical models
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Research
    topic: Methodology
  classification: H61.25
  identifier: 9780472125869
  identifier: 0472125869
  identifier: 9780472074235
  identifier: 9780472054237
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
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    record content source: EYM
    record creation date: 190912
    record change date: 20221129150717.8
    record identifier: in00004606282
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng