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  title info:
    title: Making social sciences more scientific
    sub title: the need for predictive models
  name:
    name part: Taagepera, Rein.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 254 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: In his challenging new book Rein Taagepera argues that society needs more from social sciences than they have delivered. One reason for falling short is that social sciences have depended excessively on regression and other statistical approaches, neglecting logical model building. Science is not only about the empirical 'What is?' but also very much about the conceptual 'How should it be on logical grounds?' Statistical approaches are essentially descriptive, while quantitativelyformulated logical models are predictive in an explanatory way. Why Social Sciences Are Not Scientific Enough contr.
  table of contents: Why social sciences are not scientific enough -- Can social science approaches find the law of gravitation? -- How to construct predictive models: simplicity and nonabsurdity -- Example of model building: electoral volatility -- Physicists multiply, social scientists add---even when it does not add up -- All hypotheses are not created equal -- Why most numbers published in social sciences are dead on arrival -- Forbidden areas and anchor points -- Geometric means and lognormal distributions -- Example of interlocking models : party sizes and cabinet duration -- Beyond constraint-based models : communication channels and growth rates -- Why we should shift to symmetric regression -- All indices are not created equal -- From descriptive to predictive approaches -- Recommendations for better regression -- Converting from descriptive analysis to predictive models -- Are electoral studies a rosetta stone for parts of social sciences? -- Beyond regression : the need for predictive models.
  note: Rein Taagepera.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Research
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Fieldwork
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
    topic: Research
  subject:
    topic: Sciences sociales
    topic: Recherche
  subject:
    topic: Sciences sociales
    topic: Recherche sur le terrain
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Research
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Fieldwork
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
    topic: Research
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
    topic: Research
  subject:
    topic: Sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek
  subject:
    topic: Modellen (theorie)
  subject:
    topic: Voorspellingen
  subject:
    topic: Samhällsvetenskaplig forskning
  subject:
    topic: Samfundsvidenskab
    topic: Politologi.
  classification: H62 .T22 2008eb
  classification: 300.72
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    title info:
      title: Making social sciences more scientific
    name:
      name part: Taagepera, Rein.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
    identifier: (DLC) 2008015441
    identifier: (OCoLC)216938520
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 090210
    record change date: 20260318174023.3
    record identifier: in00005703362
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng