Contextual Analysis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803942721)

Contextual analysis, the study of the role of the group context on actions and attitudes of individuals, is a useful technique in the study of education, neighborhoods, census tracts, election districts, and the family. However, the effective use of contextual analysis has involved overcoming a number of issues, such as group boundaries, the mobility of the individuals within a group, overlapping groups, missing individual data, and the choice of statistical models. Contextual Analysis offers researchers a guide for selecting the best model to use. Written in a straightforward style, the book explores such topics as contextual analysis with absolute effects, with relative effects, and the choice between regression coefficients as fixed parameters or as random variables.




Author: Gudmund R. Iversen
ISBN-10: 0803942729
ISBN-13: 9780803942721
Publisher: Sage Publications
Language: English
Published: 08/14/1991
Pages: 84
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.42w x 0.21d