Robustness Tests for Quantitative Research (Methodological Tools in the Social Sciences) - Tapa blanda

Neumayer, Eric; Plümper, Thomas

 
9781108401388: Robustness Tests for Quantitative Research (Methodological Tools in the Social Sciences)
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ISBN 10: 1108401384 ISBN 13: 9781108401388
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Sinopsis

The 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.

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Eric Neumayer is Professor of Environment and Development and Pro-Director Faculty Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Thomas Plümper is Professor of Quantitative Social Research at the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

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Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2017
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ISBN 10 
1108401384
ISBN 13 
9781108401388
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268
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