02169cam a2200289 a 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700800410003401000170007502000290009202000260012102000250014702000220017203500240019404000540021805000200027208200150029224500930030726000640040030000340046450400640049850512190056265000340178165000210181570000200183670000230185615571563BD-DhUL20161117174040.0081230s2009    enka     b    001 0 eng    a  2008054986  a9780521861984 (hardback)  a0521861985 (hardback)  a9780521680035 (pbk.)  a0521680034 (pbk.)  a(OCoLC)ocn298668995  aDLCcDLCdYDXCPdYDXdCDXdC#PdBWXdBWXdBD-DhUL00aH62b.Q365 200900a300.7222202aA quantitative tour of the social sciences /cedited by Andrew Gelman, Jeronimo Cortina.  aCambridge ;aNew York :bCambridge University Press,c2009.  axiv, 350 p. :bill. ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 327-338) and index.0 aIntroduction and overview -- What's in a number? Definitions of fairness and political representation -- The allure and limitations of mathematical modeling : game theory and trench warfare -- Historical background of quantitative social science -- Sources of historical data -- Historical perspectives on international exchange rates -- Historical data and demography in Europe and the Americas -- Learning from economic data -- Econometric forecasting and the flow of information -- Two studies of interest rates and monetary policy -- Models and theories in sociology -- Explanations of the racial disturbances of the 1960s -- The time series of lynchings in the American South -- Attainment processes in a large organization -- What is political science? -- The politics of Supreme Court nominations : the critical role of the media environment -- Modeling strategy in congressional hearings -- Formulating and testing theories in psychology -- Some theories in cognitive and social psychology -- Signal detection theory and models for trade-offs in decision making -- The potential-outcomes model of causation -- Some statistical tools for causal inference with observational data -- Migration and solidarity. 0aSocial sciencesxMethodology. 0aSocial sciences.1 aGelman, Andrew.1 aCortina, Jeronimo.