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  • Deep IV in Law

    Appellate Decisions and Texts Impact Sentencing in Trial Courts

    by Zhe Huang, Xinyue Zhang, Ruofan Wang, Daniel L. Chen ...
    Series series Elements in Law, Economics and Politics
    Do US Circuit Courts' decisions on criminal appeals influence sentence lengths imposed by US District Courts? This Element explores the use of high-dimensional instrumental variables to estimate this causal relationship. Using judge characteristics as instruments, this Element implements two-stage models on court sentencing data for the years 1991 through 2013. This Element finds that Democratic, ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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  • Causal Inference

    The Mixtape

    by Scott Cunningham ...
    An accessible, contemporary introduction to the methods for determining cause and effect in the social sciences“Causation versus correlation has been the basis of arguments—economic and otherwise—since the beginning of time. Causal Inference: The Mixtape uses legit real-world examples that I found genuinely thought-provoking. It’s rare that a book prompts readers to expand their outlook; this one ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • GIS and Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences

    Coding, Mapping, and Modeling

    by Robert Nash Parker, Emily K. Asencio ...
    Series series Sociology Re-Wired
    This is the first book to provide sociologists, criminologists, political scientists, and other social scientists with the methodological logic and techniques for doing spatial analysis in their chosen fields of inquiry.The book contains a wealth of examples as to why these techniques are worth doing, over and above conventional statistical techniques using SPSS or other statistical packages.GIS ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • Artificial Societies

    The Computer Simulation Of Social Life

    Edited by Nigel Gilbert, Rosaria Conte ...
    An exploration of the implications of developments in artificial intelligence for social scientific research, which builds on the theoretical and methodological insights provided by "Simulating societies".; This book is intended for worldwide library market for social science subjects such as sociology, political science, geography, archaeology/anthropology, and significant appeal within computer ... Read more

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  • Statistical Models

    Theory and Practice

    by David A. Freedman ...
    This lively and engaging book explains the things you have to know in order to read empirical papers in the social and health sciences, as well as the techniques you need to build statistical models of your own. The discussion in the book is organized around published studies, as are many of the exercises. Relevant journal articles are reprinted at the back of the book. Freedman makes a thorough ... Read more

    $59.09 USD

  • Designing and Conducting Your First Interview Project

    by Bruce K. Friesen ...
    Series Book 17 - Research Methods for the Social Sciences
    Designing and Conducting Your First Interview ProjectUsing a clear, easily followed approach, Designing and Conducting Your First Interview Project helps anyone new to the process develop the skills to conduct the most essential part of social research data collection: the interview. The book also shows how to organize, analyze, and interpret the data.This workbook provides a step-by-step template ... Read more

    $49.00 USD

  • The Moral Conflict of Law and Neuroscience

    by Peter A. Alces ...
    Law relies on a conception of human agency, the idea that humans are capable of making their own choices and are morally responsible for the consequences. But what if that is not the case? Over the past half century, the story of the law has been one of increased acuity concerning the human condition, especially the workings of the brain. The law already considers select cognitive realities in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Agent_Zero

    Toward Neurocognitive Foundations for Generative Social Science

    by Joshua M. Epstein ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Complexity
    The Final Volume of the Groundbreaking Trilogy on Agent-Based ModelingIn this pioneering synthesis, Joshua Epstein introduces a new theoretical entity: Agent_Zero. This software individual, or "agent," is endowed with distinct emotional/affective, cognitive/deliberative, and social modules. Grounded in contemporary neuroscience, these internal components interact to generate observed, often far ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Thinking Through Statistics

    by John Levi Martin ...
    Simply put, Thinking Through Statistics is a primer on how to maintain rigorous data standards in social science work, and one that makes a strong case for revising the way that we try to use statistics to support our theories. But don't let that daunt you. With clever examples and witty takeaways, John Levi Martin proves himself to be a most affable tour guide through these scholarly waters ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding and Applying Research Design

    by Martin Lee Abbott, Jennifer McKinney ...
    A fresh approach to bridging research design with statistical analysisWhile good social science requires both research design and statistical analysis, most books treat these two areas separately. Understanding and Applying Research Design introduces an accessible approach to integrating design and statistics, focusing on the processes of posing, testing, and interpreting research questions in the ... Read more

    $117.00 USD

  • Applied Social Science Methodology

    An Introductory Guide

    by John Gerring, Dino Christenson ...
    This textbook provides a clear, concise, and comprehensive introduction to methodological issues encountered by the various social science disciplines. It emphasizes applications, with detailed examples, so that readers can put these methods to work in their research. Within a unified framework, John Gerring and Dino Christenson integrate a variety of methods - descriptive and causal, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Agent-Based Computational Economics

    How the idea originated and where it is going

    by Shu-Heng Chen ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Experimental and Computable Economics
    This book aims to answer two questions that are fundamental to the study of agent-based economic models: what is agent-based computational economics and why do we need agent-based economic modelling of economy? This book provides a review of the development of agent-based computational economics (ACE) from a perspective on how artificial economic agents are designed under the influences of complex ... Read more

    $67.99 USD