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020 _a9781108233590 (ebook)
020 _z9781108415392 (hardback)
020 _z9781108401388 (paperback)
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050 0 0 _aHA31.5
_b.N48 2017
082 0 0 _a519.5/4
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100 1 _aNeumayer, Eric,
_d1970-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aRobustness tests for quantitative research /
_cEric Neumayer, Thomas Plumper.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2017.
300 _a1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aMethodological tools in the social sciences
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Sep 2017).
520 _aThe uncertainty that researchers face in specifying their estimation model threatens the validity of their inferences. In regression analyses of observational data, the 'true model' remains unknown, and researchers face a choice between plausible alternative specifications. Robustness testing allows researchers to explore the stability of their main estimates to plausible variations in model specifications. This highly accessible book presents the logic of robustness testing, provides an operational definition of robustness that can be applied in all quantitative research, and introduces readers to diverse types of robustness tests. Focusing on each dimension of model uncertainty in separate chapters, the authors provide a systematic overview of existing tests and develop many new ones. Whether it be uncertainty about the population or sample, measurement, the set of explanatory variables and their functional form, causal or temporal heterogeneity, or effect dynamics or spatial dependence, this book provides guidance and offers tests that researchers from across the social sciences can employ in their own research.
650 0 _aRobust statistics.
650 0 _aSocial sciences
_xMethodology.
700 1 _aPlümper, Thomas,
_eauthor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108415392
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108233590
999 _c523105
_d523103