Measurement in the Social Sciences

Produktbeschreibung

Among the frustrations constantly confronting the social scientist are those associated with the general process of measurement. This book is organized so that, one proceeds from problems of data collection to those of data analysis. It represents a series of studies that are deemed to be crucial for the advancement of social science research. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Introduction; I: Implications of Alternative Data-Collection Approaches; 2: A
Fully Nonmetric Unfolding Technique: Interval Values from Ordinal Data; 3:
Social Attitudes: Magnitude Measurement and Theory; 4: Relations Between Scales;
5: Memory and The Assessment of Behavior; 6: Measurement Error in Sociometry;
II: Multiple Indicator Approaches; 7: An Empirical and Algebraic Analysis of
Alternative Techniques for Measuring Unobserved Variables; 8: Multiple
Indicators: Some Criteria of Selection; 9: Quantifying Unmeasured Variables; 10:
The Causal Approach to Measurement Error in Panel Analysis: Some Further
Contingencies; III: Ordinal Measurement; 11: Measures of Association for
Bivariate Ordinal Hypotheses; 12: Ordinal Measures of Association and the
General Linear Model; 13: Nonparametric Partial Correlation; 14: Ordinal Partial
Correlation and Causal Inferences; 15: Beyond Ordinal Measurement: Weak Tests of
Stronger Theories