Making Social Sciences More Scientific: The Need for Predictive Models

Making Social Sciences More Scientific: The Need for Predictive Models

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-272

  Taagepera, Rein ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Logical model building; Predictive models; Predictive versus descriptive approaches; Quantitatively predictive logical models; Regression; Scientific method; Social science methods; Statistical approaches; Symmetric regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922008028     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199534661.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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