J Mulder,A E Raftery
J Mulder
The Schwarz or Bayesian information criterion (BIC) is one of the most widely used tools for model comparison in social science research. The BIC however is not suitable for evaluating models with order constraints on the parameters of inte...
Guangyu Tong,Guang Guo
Guangyu Tong
Meta-analysis is a statistical method that combines quantitative findings from previous studies. It has been increasingly used to obtain more credible results in a wide range of scientific fields. Combining the results of relevant studies a...
Evaluating the Cumulative Impact of Childhood Misfortune: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach [0.03%]
童年不幸的累积影响评估：结构方程建模方法
Sarah Mustillo,Miao Li,Kenneth F Ferraro
Sarah Mustillo
Most studies of the early origins of adult health rely on summing dichotomously measured negative exposures to measure childhood misfortune (CM), neglect, adversity, or trauma. There are several limitations to this approach, including that ...
Agent-Based Models for Assessing Complex Statistical Models: An Example Evaluating Selection and Social Influence Estimates from SIENA [0.03%]
基于代理的模型评估复杂统计模型：一个评价SIENA选择和社会影响估计的例子
Sebastian Daza,L Kurt Kreuger
Sebastian Daza
Although agent-based models (ABMs) have been increasingly accepted in social sciences as a valid tool to formalize theory, propose mechanisms able to recreate regularities, and guide empirical research, we are not aware of any research usin...
Using universal kriging to improve neighborhood physical disorder measurement [0.03%]
运用通用克里金法改进邻里物理乱象的衡量指标
Stephen J Mooney,Michael Dm Bader,Gina S Lovasi et al.
Stephen J Mooney et al.
Ordinary kriging, a spatial interpolation technique, is commonly used in social sciences to estimate neighborhood attributes such as physical disorder. Universal kriging, developed and used in physical sciences, extends ordinary kriging by ...
Qiang Fu,Xin Guo,Kenneth C Land
Qiang Fu
Count responses with grouping and right censoring have long been used in surveys to study a variety of behaviors, status, and attitudes. Yet grouping or right-censoring decisions of count responses still rely on arbitrary choices made by re...
Michael Mäs,Dirk Helbing
Michael Mäs
Many sociological theories make critically different macropredictions when their microassumptions are implemented stochastically rather than deterministically. Deviations from individuals' behavioral patterns described by microtheories can ...
Brady T West,Dan Li
Brady T West
In face-to-face surveys, interviewer observations are a cost-effective source of paradata for nonresponse adjustment of survey estimates and responsive survey designs. Unfortunately, recent studies have suggested that the accuracy of these ...
PROSPECTIVE VERSUS RETROSPECTIVE APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF INTERGENERATIONAL SOCIAL MOBILITY [0.03%]
代际社会流动的研究：前瞻性方法与回溯性方法之比较
X I Song,Robert D Mare
X I Song
Most intergenerational social mobility studies are based upon retrospective data, in which samples of individuals report socioeconomic information about their parents, an approach that provides representative data for offspring but not the ...
Local Dependence in Latent Class Analysis of Rare and Sensitive Events [0.03%]
罕见和敏感事件的潜在类别分析中的局部依赖性
Marcus E Berzofsky,Paul P Biemer,William D Kalsbeek
Marcus E Berzofsky
For survey methodologists, latent class analysis (LCA) is a powerful tool for assessing the measurement error in survey questions, evaluating survey methods, and estimating the bias in estimates of population prevalence. LCA can be used whe...