A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem : : Reconstructing Individual Behavior from Aggregate Data / / Gary King.
This book provides a solution to the ecological inference problem, which has plagued users of statistical methods for over seventy-five years: How can researchers reliably infer individual-level behavior from aggregate (ecological) data? In political science, this question arises when individual-lev...
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