Know Your Population and Know Your Model: Using Model-Based Regression and Poststratification to Generalize Findings Beyond the Observed Sample

Psychological Methods

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2021, Pages 547-558

  Kennedy, Lauren ^a   Gelman, Andrew ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Generalization; Multilevel models; Poststratification; Surveys

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PERSONALITY;

HUMANS; PERSONALITY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 85121846943     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/met0000362     Document Type: Article

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