Routledge, 2010. — 157 p.
Models in Statistical Social Research provides a comprehensive insight of models used in statistical social research based on statistical data and methods. While traditionally understood statistical models relate to data generating processes which presuppose facts, this book focuses on analytical models which relate to substantial processes generating social facts.
Variables and relations
Notions of structure
Processes and process frames
Functional models
Functional causality
Models and statistical data
Models with event variables
Multilevel and populatio n-level models
Notes