Screen LibraryThe explanatory power of models：bridging the gap between empirical and theoretical research in the social sciences
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Kluwer Academic Publishers,
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| Publisher Address: | Boston |
| Publication Dates: | c2002. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Methodos series ; v. 1 |
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| Carrier Form: | ix, 309 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1402008678 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | C32 |
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C32 C3 |
| Call Number: | C32/E966 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. The determinants of infant mortality : how far are conceptual frameworks really modelled? / Godelieve Masuy-Stroobant -- The role of statistical and formal techniques in experimental psychology / Guy Lories -- Explanatory models in suicide research : explaining relationships / Anne-Marie Aish-van Vaerenbergh -- Attitudes towards ethnic minorities and and [sic] support for ethnic discrimination, a test of complementary models / Peer Scheepers, Geneveève Verberk, Albert Felling -- Computer simulation methods to model macroeconomics / Armand de Callataÿ -- The explanatory power of Artificial Neural Networks / Michel Verleysen -- On modelling in human geography / Dominique Peeters -- The explanatory power of migration models / Marc Termote -- The role of models in comparative politics / Christine Mironesco -- Elementary mathematical modelization of games and sports / Pierre Parlebas -- Computer modelling of theory, explanation for the 21st century / Thomas K. Burch -- The logicist analysis of explanatory theories in archæology / Jean-Claude Gardin. |