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...
Adam Slez,Heather A O&#x;Connell,Katherine J Curtis
Adam Slez
Areal data have been used to good effect in a wide range of sociological research. One of the most persistent problems associated with this type of data, however, is the need to combine data sets with incongruous boundaries. To help address...
Analyzing Relationships of Necessity Not Just in Kind But Also in Degree: Complementing fsQCA With NCA [0.03%]
从量和度两个方面分析必要性关系：用NCA补充fsQCA的方法不足
Barbara Vis,Jan Dul
Barbara Vis
Analyzing relationships of necessity is important for both scholarly and applied research questions in the social sciences. An often-used technique for identifying such relationships-fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA)-has li...