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Robustness Tests for Quantitative Research: Methodological Tools in the Social Sciences

Autor Eric Neumayer, Thomas Plümper
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 aug 2017
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781108415392
ISBN-10: 1108415393
Pagini: 268
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Methodological Tools in the Social Sciences

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. Introduction; Part I. Robustness – A Conceptual Framework: 2. Causal complexity and the limits to inferential validity; 3. The logic of robustness testing; 4. The concept of robustness; 5. A typology of robustness tests; 6. Alternatives to robustness testing?; Part II. Robustness Tests and the Dimensions of Model Uncertainty: 7. Population and sample; 8. Concept validity and measurement; 9. Explanatory and omitted variables; 10. Functional forms beyond default; 11. Causal heterogeneity and context conditionality; 12. Structural change as temporal heterogeneity; 13. Effect dynamics; 14. Spatial correlation and dependence; 15. Conclusion.

Recenzii

'Neumayer and Plümper have made an impressive contribution to research methodology. Rich in innovation and insight, Robustness Tests for Quantitative Research shows social scientists the way forward for improving the quality of inference with observational data. A must-read!' Harold D. Clarke, Ashbel Smith Professor, University of Texas, Dallas

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This highly accessible book presents robustness testing as the methodology for conducting quantitative analyses in the presence of model uncertainty.