SOCIOLOGICAL METHODS BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Aggregation………………………………………………………………….

Bayesian Inference………………………………………………………..

Case Control:  Response-Based Sampling…….

Cointegration……………………………………………………..

Comparative Methodologies

Comparing Coefficients Between Equations..

Critical Assessments……………………………………………………..

Dichotomous Dependent Variables: Logit, Probit..

Differential Equations………………………………………………..

Discrete Variables…………………………………………………………..

Distributed Lags………………………………………………………………..

Event History Analysis………………………………………………..

          Expositions and Reviews………………………………………………..

         Applications………………………………………………………

Experimental and Non-Experimental Research Designs

General Sources……………………………………………………………….

Hierarchical Linear Models……………………………………….

Identification…………………………………………………………………

Influential Outliers…………………………………………………………..

Interaction Effects…………………………………………………………..

Measurement.………………………………………………………………..

Multicollinearity………………………………………………………………..

Optimal Matching…………………………………………………………..

Poisson Regression…………………………………………………………….

Path Modles…..

Pooled Time Series/Cross Sectional Analysis..

          Expositions and Reviews……………………………………………….

     Applications…………………………………………………………………..

Rasch Measurement Models…………………………………………………

Ratio Variables, Rates, Weighted Least Squares..

Reciprocal Causation…………………………………………………………..

Selection Bias………………………………………………………………..

Simultaneous Equations ……………………………………………………

Spatial Autocorrelation…………………………………………………….

Specification Errors ……………………………………………………………

Statistical Power………………………………………………………………..

Theory…………………………………………………………………………..

Time Series Data……………………………………………………………….

 

 

Aggregation   

 

Blalock, H. Causal Inferences, Ch. 4

 

Farkas, G. 1974. "Specification, Residuals and Contextual Effects." Sociological Methods and Research

 

Firebaugh, G. 1980. "Groups as contexts and frog ponds."  New Directions for Methodology of Social and Behavioral Science 6: 43-52.

 

Hannan, M. 1971. Aggregation and Disaggreation in Sociology.  Lexington Books.

 

Hanushek, E., J. Jackson, and J. Kain. 1974. "Model Specification, Use of Aggregate Data, and the Ecological Correlation Fallacy."  Political Methodology 1:89-107.

 

Hauser, R. 1970. "Context and Consex:  A Cautionary Tale" American Journal of Sociology 75: 645-664.  Exchange with A. Barton, AJS 76: 514-20.

 

Hulin, C. and D. Rousseau. 1960. "Analyzing Infrequent Events:  Once You Find Them Your Troubles Begin."  New Directions for Methodology of Social and Behavioral Science 6:65-75.

 

Iverson, G. 1989. "Absolute and Relative Individual Effects in Contextual Analysis."  Historical Methods 22: 21-25.

 

 Langbein, L. and A. Lichtman. 1978. Ecological Inference. Sage

 

Lazarsfeld, P. and H. Menzel.  "On the relation between individual and collective properties." Pp.499-516 in Complex Organizations, edited by A. Etzioni

 

Lincoln, J. and G. Zeitz. 1980. "Organizational properties from aggregate data."  American Sociological Review 45:391-408.

 

Lipset, J., M. Trow and J. Coleman Union Democracy Pp. 160-85.

 

Robinson, W. 1950. "Ecological Correlations and the Behaviors of Individuals"  American Sociological Review 15:351-7.

 

Selvin, H. 1958. "Durkheim's Suicide:  Further thoughts on

a methodological classic" American Journal of Sociology 63:607-19.

 

Shively, W. 1969. "Ecological inference:  The use of aggregate data to study individuals" American Political Science Review 63: 1183-96.

Sigelman, Lee. 1991. “Turning Cross Sections into a Panel:  A Simple Procedure for Ecological Inference.”  Social Science Research 20:150-170.

 

Bayesian Inference

 

Albert, James. 1992 "A Bayesian Analyssis of a Poisson Random Effects Model fro Home run Hitters." American Statistician 40:246-253.

 

Dempster, A. 1968. "Employment discrimination and statistical science."  Statistical Science 3:149-195

 

Jefferys, William H., & Berger, James O. 1992.  “Ockham’s Razor and  Bayesian Analysis.”  American Scientist.  80:64-72.

 

Raftery, Adrian E. 1993.  “Bayesian Model Selection in Structural Equation Models.”  Pp. 163-180 in Testing Structural Equation Models, edited by Kenneth Bollen and J. Scott Long.  Newbury Park, CA; Sage.

 

Western, Bruce.1996 . "Vague Theory and Model Uncertainty in Macrosociology."  Sociological Methodology  26 :165-192.

 

Western, Bruce and Simon Jackman. 1994. "Bayesian Inference for Comparative Research."  American Political Science Review 88:412-423.

 

Case Control:  Response-Based Sampling

 

Breslow, N. E. 1996. "Statistics in Epidemiology:  The Case-Control Study."  Journal of the American Statistical Association 91:14-28.

 

Burstin, Helen R. et al. "Do the Poor Sue More?:  A Cse-Control Study of Malpractie Claimsand Socioeconomic Status." Journal of the American Medical Association 270:1697-1701.

 

Goodman, R. et al. 1988.  "Case-control studies:  Design issues for criminological applications."  Journal of  Quantitative Criminology 4: 71-84

 

Kleck, Gary and Michael Hogan. 1999. "National Case-Control Study of Homicide Offending and Gun Ownership." Social Problems 46:275-293.

 

Loftin, C. and D. McDowall. 1988. "The Analysis of Case-control Studies in Criminology." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 4: 85-98.

 

Yu, X and C. Manski. 1989. "The Logit Model and Response-based Samples."  Sociological Methods and Research 17: 283-302.

 

Co-integration

 

Engle, R. and C. Granger. 1987. "Co-integration and Error Correction:  Representation, Estimation and Testing."  Econometrica 55:251-76.

 

Gilbert, C. 1986. "Professor Hendry's Econometric Methodology."  Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 48: 283-307.

 

Hendry, D. 1986. "Econometric Modeling with Cointegrated Variables:  An Overview."  Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 48:201-212.

Comparative Methodologies

 

Mahoney, James. 2000. “Strategies of Causal Inference in Small-N Analysis.” Sociological Methods & Research 28:387-424

 

 

Comparing Coefficients Between Equations

 

Allison, Paul D. 1995. “The Impact of Random Predictors on Comparisons of Coefficients between Models.”  American Journal of Sociology 100:1294-1304.

 

Allison, Paul D.1999. “Comparing Logit and Probit Coefficients Across Groups.” Sociological Methods & Research 28:186-208

 

Althusser, R. and M. Wigler. 1972. "Standardization and Component Analysis."  Sociological Methods and Research 1:97-135.

 

Blalock, H. 1967. "Path Coefficients versus Regression Coefficients"  American Journal of Sociology 72:675-6.

 

Brame, Robert et al. 1998. "Testing for the Equality of Maximum-Likelihood Regression Coefficients between Two Independent Equations."  Journal of Quantitative Criminology 14:245-261.

 

Clogg, Clifford, Eva Petkova, and Adamantios Haritou. 1995. "Statistical Methods for Comparing Regression Coefficients Between Models."  American Journal of Sociology 100:1261-1293.

 

Cohen, A. 1983. "Comparing regression coefficients across samples:  A study of the statistical test."  Sociological Methods and Research 12: 77-94.

 

Jones, F. and J. Kelley. 1984. "Decomposing Differences between Groups:  A Cautionary Note on Measuring Discrimination" Sociological Methods and Research 12:323-43.

 

Judd, C. and M. Milburn. 1980. "Structure of attitude systems in the general public."  American Sociological Review 45:627-43.

 

Kim, J. and G. Ferree.  19  .  "Standardization in causal analysis" Sociological Methods and Research 10:187-210.   [Reprinted in Marsden 1981]

 

King, G. 1986. "How not to lie with statistics:  Avoiding common mistakes in quantitative political science."  American Journal of Political Science 30: 666-687.

 

Lee, S-K and K-L Tsui. 1982. "Covariance structure analysis in several populations"  Psychometrika 47:297-308.

 

Little, R. and T. Pullum. 1979. "The general linear model and direct standardization: A comparison."  Sociological Methods and Research 7: 475-501.

 

 

 O'Brien, R. 1977. "A solution to the problem of 'differences in units of measure' in cross-population comparisons" Sociological Methods and Research 5: 471-484.

 

Paternoster, Raymond, Robert Brame, Paul Mazerolle, and Alex Piquero. 1998.  "Using the Correct Statistical Test fo the Equality of Regression Coefficients." Criminology 36:859-866.

 

Rogers, James L., Howard, Kenneth I., & Vessy, John T. 1993.  “Using Significance Tests to Evaluate Equivalence Between Two Experimental Groups.”  Psychological Bulletin.  113:553-565.

 

Sampson, R. 1985. "Sex differences in self-reported delinquency and official records:  A multiple group structural modeling approach"  J. Quantitative Criminology 1:345-367.

 

Schoenberg, R. 1972. "Strategies for meaningful comparison" Pp. 1-35 in H. Costner (ed.) Sociological Methodology  San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

 

Specht D. and R. Warren. 1976. "Comparing causal models" Pp.46-82 in D. Heise (ed.) Sociological Methodology  San Francisco: Jossey Bass.

 

Wilson, K. 1981. "On population comparisons using factor indexes or latent variables" Social Science Research 10:301-13.

 

Critical Assessments

 

Abbott, 1988. "Transcending general linear reality."  Sociological Theory 6: 169-86.

 

Biddle, B. and M. Marlin. 1987. "Causality, confirmation, credulity and structural equation models."  Child Development 58: 4-17.

 

Breckler, Steven J. 1990. "Applications of Covariance Structure Modeling in Psychology:  Cause for Concern?" Psychological Bulletin 107:260-273.

 

Cliff, N. 1983. "Some cautions concerning the application of causal modeling methods."  Multivariate Behavioral Research 18: 115-126.

 

Clogg, Clifford. 1991. “Sources of Uncertainty in Modelijng Social Statistics:  An Inventory.”  Journal of Official Statistics 7:7-24.

 

Clogg, Clifford. 1992. “The Impact of Sociological Methodology on Statistical Methodology.”  Statistical Science 7:183-207.

 

Dar, R. 1987. "Another look at Meehl, Lakatos, and the scientific practices of psychologists."  American Psychologist 42: 145-151.

 

 Freedman, David A. 1985. "Statistics and the Scientific Method." Pp.343-366 in Cohort Analysis in Social Research,  edited by William Mason and Stephen E. Fienberg.   New York: Springer-Verlag).  Also,  Fienberg, Stephen E. "Comments on and Reactions to Freedman, Statistics and Scientific method." Pp. 371-383 Ibid.

 

Freedman, D. 1987. "As others see us:  A case study in path anlaysis."  J. of Educational Statistics 12: 101-128; Hope, K. "Barren theory of petty craft?  A response to Professor Freedman" Ibid pp. 129-147; Rogosa, D. "Causal models do not support scientific conclusions:  A comment in support of Freedman." Ibid, pp. 185-195.

 

Hedges, L. 1987. "How hard is hard science; how soft is soft science."  American Psychologist 42: 443-455.

 

Holland, P. 1989. "Causal inference, path analysis and recursive structural equation models."  Sociological Methodology: 449-484.

 

Leamer, E. 1989. "Discussion [of Marini-Singer & Holland, 1989).  Sociological Methodology: 485-493.

 

Lieberson, Stanley. 1985. Making It Count: The Advancement of Sociological Research and Theory.  Berkeley:  University of California Press.

 

Lieberson, Stanley. 1988.  "Asking too much, expecting too little."  Sociologicl Perspectives 31: 379-397.

 

Ling, R. 1982. Review of Kenny's Correlation and Causation.  JASA: 489-491.

 

Marini, M and B. Singer. 1989. "Causality in the social sciences"  Sociological Methodology: 347-409.

 

Meehl, P. 1967.  "Theory testing in psychology and physics:  A methodological paradox." Philosophy of Science 34: 103-115.

 

Meehl, P. 1978. "Theoretical risks and tabular asterisks:  Sir Karl, Sir Ronald, and the slow progress of soft psychology."  J. of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 46: 806-834.

 

Pearl, Ljudea. 1996. “Structural and Probabilistic Causality.”  Psychology of Learning and Motivation 34:393-435.

 

Serlin, R. and D. Lapsley. 1985. "Rationality in psychological research:  The good-enough principle."  American Psychologist 40: 73-83.

 

Dichotomous Dependent Variables:  Logit, Probit, Tobit

 

Aldrich, J. and F. Nelson Linear Probability: Logit and Probit Models Sage

 

Aldrich, J. and C. Cnudde. 1975. "Probing the bounds of conventional wisdom:  A comparison of regression probit and discriminant analysis."  American Journal of Political Science 19: 571-608.

 

Cleary, P. and R. Angel. 1984. "The analysis of relationships involving dichotomous dependent variables." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 25: 334-348.

 

DeMaris, Alfred. 1991.  "A Framework for the Interpretation of First Order Interaction in Logit Modeling."  Psychological Bulletin 110:557-570.

 

Goodman, L. 1976. "The relationship between modified and usual multiple regression approaches to the analysis of dichotomous variables."  Pp. 83-111 in D. Heise (ed.) Sociological Methodology.

 

Guilkey, D. and R. Rindfuss. 1987. "Logistic regression multivariate life tables:  A communicable approach." Sociological Methods and Research 16:276-300.

 

Hanushek, E. and J. Jackson. 1977. "Models with discrete dependent variables" Pp. 179-216 in Statistical Methods for Social Sciences (Academic Press).

 

Hoffman, Philip T. 1984. "Wills and Statistics:  Tobit Analysis and the Counter Reformation in Lyon."  Journal of Interdisciplinary History 14:813-834.

 

Maddala, G. 1987. "Limited Dependent Variable Models Using Panel Data."  Journal of Human Resources 22:306-338.

 

McDonald, John f. and Robert A. Moffitt. 1980. "The Uses of Tobit Analysis."  Review of Economics and Statistics 62:318-321.

 

Morgan, S. P. and J. Teachman. 1988. "Logistic Regression:  Description, Examples and Comparisons."  Journal of Marriage and the Family 50:929-36; Demaris, A. 1990 "Interpreting logistic regession results:  A critical commentary."  Ibid 52:271-77.

 

Petersen, T. 1985 "A comment on presenting results from logit and probit models."  American Sociological Review 50:130-131.

 

Roncek, D. 1991. "Using logit coefficients to obtain the effects of independent variable on changes in probabilities." Social Forces 70:509-518

 

Roncek, D. 1992. Learning more from tobit Coefficients:  Extending a Comparative Analysis."  American Sociological Review 57:503-507.

 

Walsh, A. 1987. "Teaching understanding and interpretation of logit regression."  Teaching Sociology 15: 178-183.

 

Winship, C. and R. Mare. 1983. "Structural equations and path analysis for discrete data." American Journal of Sociology 89: 54-110.

 

Differential Equations

 

Coleman, James. 1968.  Introduction to Mathematical Sociology.  New York: Free Press.

 

Coleman, James. 1968. “The Mathematical Study of Change.”  Pp. 428-478 in Methodology in Social Research, edited by Hubert M. Blalock and Ann B. Blalock.  New York:  McGraw Hill.

 

Nielsen, F. and R. Rosenfeld.  1981. "Substantive Interpretation of Differential Equation Models."  American Sociological Review 46:159-74; 935-937.

 

 

Discrete Variables

 

Bishop, Y., S. Fienberg and P. Holland. 1975. Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice (MIT Press).

 

Bohrnstedt, G and D. Knoke. Statistics for Social Analysis, chapters 9 & 10.

 

 Davis, J. 1978. "Hierarchical models for significance tests in multivariate contingency tables:  An exegesis of Goodman's recent papers" Sociological Methodology 1973/1974.   (Reprinted in L. Goodman (ed.) (Analyzing Qualitative/Categorical Data.)

 

Feinberg, S. 1977. The Analysis of Cross-Classified Categorical Data (MIT Press).

 

Goodman, L. 1984. Analayzing Qualitative/Categorical Data (Abt Books).

 

Halvorsen, R. and R. Palmquist. 19   "The Interpretation of Dummy Variables in Semilogarithmic Equations."  American Economic Review 70:474-475.

 

Knoke, D. 1975. "Comparison of log linear and regression models for systmes of dichotomous variables" Sociological Methods and Research 3: 416-34.

 

 Knoke, P. and P. Burke Log-Linear Models. Sage Papers, No. 20.

 

Kousser, J. Morgan, Gary W. Cox, and David W. Galenson. 1982.  "Log-linear analysis of contingency tables:  An Introduction for Historians with an Application to Thernstrom on the `Floating Proletariat'"  Historical Methods 15:152-169.

 

Messick, D. and J. van de Geer. "A reversal paradox."  Psychological Bulletin 90: 582-93.

 

 

Distributed Lags

 

Fox, John 19  . "The geometric distributed lag and its application to police expenditures" Pp. 103-120 in J. Fox (ed) Models in Quantitative Criminology.  New York: Academic Press.

 

Maddala, . "Distributed lag models" Econometrics, pp. 355-389.

 

Schmidt, P. and R. Waud. 1973. "The Almon lag technique and the monetary vs. fiscal policy debate."  Journal of American Statistical Association 68: 11-19

 

Event History Analysis:  Expositions and Reviews

 

Allison, P. 1984. Event History Analysis: Regression for Longitudinal Event Data.  (Sage)

 

Allison, Paul D. 1996. “Fixed Effects Partial Likelihood for Repeated Events.” Sociological Methods and Research 25:207-222.

 

Axinn, William G. et al. 1999. "Innovations in Life History Calendar Applications."  Social Science Research 28:243-264.

Blossfeld, H-P and A. Hamerle. 1992 "Unobserved Heterogeneity in Event History Models."  Quantity and Quality 26:157-168.

 

Blossfeld, H-P, A. Hamerle, and K. Mayer. 1989. Event History Analysis: Statistical Theory and Application in the Social Sciences.  (Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum).

 

Carroll, G. R. 1983a. “Dynamic analysis of descrete dependent variables:  A didactic essay.”  Quality and Quantity 17: 425-60.

 

Carroll, G. R. 1983b. "A Stochastice Model of Organizational Mortality: Review and Reanalysis."  Social Science Research 12:303-329.

 

Clogg, C. 1986. "Invoked by RATE" American Journal of Sociology 92: 696-705.

 

Efron, B. 1988. "Logistic regression, survival analysis and the Kaplan-Meier curve" JASA 83: 414-425

 

Freedman, Deborah, Arland Thornton, Donald Camburn, Duane Alwin and Linda Young-DeMarrco. 1988. "The Life History Calendar: A Technique for Collecting Retrospective Data." Sociological Methodology 18:37-68.

 

Heckman, James J. 1991."Identifying the Hand of Past:  Distinguishing State Dependence from Heterogeneity."  American Economic Review 81 supplement:71-79.

 

Hutchinson, D. 1988. "Event history and survival analysis in the social sciences." Quality and Quantity 22: 203-219, 255-278.

 

 

Kalbfleisch, J. and R. Prentice. 1980. The Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data.  New York:  Wiley.

 

Kiefer, N. 1988. "Economic Duration Data and Hazard Functions."  Journal of Economic Literature 26:646-79.

 

Lancaster, T. 1990. The Econometric Analysis of Transition Data.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

 

Lawless, J. F. 1982. Statistical Models and Methods for Lifetime Data.  (Wiley)

 

Lee, E. 1980. Statistical Methods for Survival Data Analysis (Lifetime Learning)

 

Lin, Nan, Walter M. Ensel, and Wan-foon Gina Lai. 2000. “Construction and use of the Life History Calendar: Reliability and Validity of Recall Data.” Pp. 249-272 in Stress and Adversity over the Life Courses, edited by Jan H. Gotlib and Blair Wheaton.  NewYork: Cambridge University Press.

 

Petersen, T. 1989. "Analyzing change over time in a continuous dependent variable:  Specification and estimation of continous state space hazard rate models."  Sociological Methodology  : 137-164.

 

Raffalovich, L. and D. Knoke. 1983. "Quantitative Methods for the Analysis of Historical Change."  Historical Methods 16:149-154.

 

Roneck, D. 1993 "When Will They Ever Learn that First Derivatives Identify the Effects of Continuous Independent Variables or "Officer, You Can't Give Me a Ticket, I Wasn't Speeding for an Entire Hour."  Social Forces 71:1067-1078.

 

Singer, J. and J. Willet. 1993. "It's About Time:  Using Discrete-Time Survival Analysis to Study Duration and the Timing of Events."  Journal of Educational Statistics 18:155-195.

 

Strang, David. 1994. “Introduction to Event History Methods.” Pp. 245-253 in The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State, edited by Thomas Janoski and Alexander Hicks. New York: Cambridge University Press.

 

Swaminathan, Anand and Gabriele Wiedenmayer. 1991. "Does the Pattern of Density Dependence in Organizational Mortality Rates Vary Across Levels of Analysis?  Evidence from the German Brewing Industry."  Social Science Research 20:45-73.

 

Teachman, J. 19  . Analyzing social processes:  Life tables and proportional hazard models.  Social Science Research 12: 263-301.

 

Tsiatis, A. 1975. "A non-identifiability aspect of the problem of competing risks" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 72: 20-2.

 

Tuma, N. and M. Hannan. 1984. Social Dynamics: Models and Methods..  (New York:  Academic Press).

 

Tuma, Nancy. 1994. “Event History Analysis: An Introduction.”  Pp. 136-166 in Analyzing Social and Political Change, edited by Angela Dale and Richard B. Davis.  Newbury Park, CA:  Sage.

 

Usui, Chikako. 1994. “Welfare State Development in a World System Context: Event History Analysis of First Social Insurance Legislation Among 60 countries, 1880-1960.” Pp. 254-277 in The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State.  Edited by Thomas Janoski and Alexander Hicks. New York: Cambridge University Press.

 

 Vaupel, J. and A. Yashin. 1985. "Heterogeneity's ruses:  Some surprising effects of selection on population dynamics."  American Statistician 39: 176-185.

 

Yamaguchi, K. 1990. "Logit and Multinomial Logit Models for Discrete-time Event History Analysis:  A Causal Analysis of Interdependent Discrete-State Processes."  Quantity and Quantity 24:323-41.

 

Yamaguchi, K. 1991. Event History Analysis.  Newbury Park CA: Sage

 

Yamaguchi, K. 1993. "Modeling Time-varying Effects of Covariates in Event-History Analysis Using Statistics from the Saturated Hazard Rate Model."  Sociological Methodology.  Oxford:  Basil Blackwell.

 

Event History:  Applications

 

Alt, James E. and Gary King. 1994. "Transfers of Governmental Power:  The Meaning of Time Dependence." Comparative Political Studies 27:190-210.

 

Berry, Frances S. and William D. Berry. 1990. "State Lottery Adoptions as Policy Innovations:  An Event History Analysis."  American Political Science Review 84:395-415.

 

Chung, Ching-Fan, Peter Schmidt, and Ann D. Witte. 1991. "Survival Analysis: A Survey."  Journal of Quantitative Criminology 7:59-98.

 

Carroll, Glenn and James Wade. 1991.  Density Dependence in the Organizational Evolution of the American Brewing Industry across Different Levels of Analysis."  Social Science Research 20:271-302.

 

 Cornell, L. 1990. "Analyzing the Consequences of Family Structure with Event History Methods.  Historical Methods 23: 53-61.

 

Fisher, D. and M. Anglin. 1987.  "Survival analysis in drug program evaluation. Part I.  Overall program effectiveness."  International J. of the Addictions 22: 115-34.

 

Freeman, J., G. Carroll and M. Hannan. 1983.  "Liability of newness:  Age dependence in organizational death rates."  American Sociological Review 48: 692-710.

 

Guo, Guang, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Kathleen M. Harris. 1996. "Parent's Labor Force Attachment and Grade Retention  among Black Children."  Sociology of Education 69:217-236.

 

Hagan, J. and M. Zatz. 1985. "The social organization of criminal justice processing:  An event history analysis."  Social Science Research  14: 103-125.

 

Hage, J., P. Collins, F. Hull, J. Teachman. 1993. "The Impact of Knowledge on the Survival of American Manufacturing Plants."  Social Forces 72:223-246.

 

Halliday, T., M. Powell and M. Granfors. 1987. "Minimalist organizations:  Vital events in state bar associations, 1870-1930." American Sociological Review 52:456-471.

 

Hannan, Michael T. 1989a. "Age Dependence in the Mortality of National Labor Unions:  Comparisons of Parametric Models."  Journal of Mathematical Sociology 14:1-30.

 

Hannan, Michael T. 1989b. "Macrosociological Applications of Event History Analysis:  State Transitions and Event Recurrences."  Quantity and Quality 23:351-383.

 

Hannan, M. and G. Carroll. 1981. "Dynamics of formal political structure:  An event history analysis."  American Sociological Review 46:19-35.

 

Heckman, James J. and James R. Walker. 19  . "Using Goodness of Fit and Other Criteria to Choose Among Competing Duration Models:  A Case Study of Hutterite Data."  Sociological Methodology  247-307.

 

Heinz, J. and E. Laumann. 1982. Chicago Lawyers. New York:  Russell Sage.

 

Hepburn, John R. and Celesta A. Albonetti. 1994. "Recidivism among Drug Offenders:  A Survival Analysis of the Effects of Offender Characteristics, Type of Offense and Two Types of Intervention." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 10:159-179.

 

Hogan, D. and D. Kertzer. 1985. "Longitudinal Approaches to Migration in Social History."  Historical Methods 18:20-30.

 

Holden, K., R. Burkhauser, and D. Feaster. 1988. "The timing of falls into poverty after retirement and widowhood."  Demography 25: 405-414.

 

Johnson, R. J. and C. Herring. 1989. "Labor Market Participation among Young Adults:  An Event History Analysis."  Youth & Society 21:3-31.

 

Knoke, D. 1982.  "The spread of municipal reform:  Temporal, spatial and social dynamics."  American Journal of Sociology 87:  1314-1339.

 

Liebman, R, J. Sutton, and R. Wuthnow. 1988.  "Exploring the social sources of denominationalism:  Schism in American Protestant denominations, 1890-1980."  American Sociological Review 53: 343-353.

 

Massey, D. 1987. "Understanding Mexican Migration." American Journal of Sociology 92:1372-1403.

 

Meltz, M. 1984.  Recidivism  (Academic Press)

 

Minkoff, D. 1993."The Organization of Survival:  Women's and Racial-Ethnic Voluntarist and Activist Organizations, 1955-1985."  Social Forces 71:887-908.

 

Nienstedt, B., M. Zatz, and T. Epperlein. 1988.  "Court process and sentencing of drinking drivers:  Using new methodologies." J. of Quantitative Criminology 4:39-59.

 

Olzak, S. 19  .  "Causes of ethnic conflict and protest in urban American, 1977-1889."  Social Science Research 16:185-210.

 

Olzak, S. 1990. "The political context of competition:  Lynching and urban racial violence, 1882-1914." Social Forces 69:395-421.

 

Phillips, John A. and Charles Wetherell. 1995. “The Great Reform Act of 1832 and the Political Mobilization of England  American Historical Review 100:411-36.

 

Plotnick, R. 1983. "Turnover in the AFDC Population:  An Event History Analysis."  Journal of Human Resources 28:65-80.

 

Rank, M. 1989. "Fertility among women on welfare:  Incidence and determinants."  American Sociological Review 54: 296-304.

 

Rauma, D. and R. Berk. 1982. "Crime and poverty in California:  Some quasi-experimental evidence."  Social Science Research 11: 318-351.

 

Rhodes, William. 1986. "A Survival Model with Dependent Competing Events and Right-Hand Censoring:  Probation and Parole as an Illustration." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 2:113-138.

 

Sandefuhr, G. and W. Scott. 1981. "A dynamic analysis of migration:  An assessment of the effects of age, family, and career variables." Demography 18: 355-368.

 

Schmidt, P. and A. Witte. 1988. Predicting Recidivism Using Survival Models. (N. Y.: Springer-Verlag)

 

Simpson, Sally S. and Christopher S. Koper. 1992. "Deterring Corporate Crime."  Criminology 30:347-375.

 

Soule, Sarah A. and Yvonne Zylan. 1997. “Runaway Train?:  The Diffusion of State-Level Reform in ADC/AFDC Eligibility Requirements, 1950-1967.”  American Journal of Sociology 103:733-762.

Strang, D. 1991. "Adding Social Structure to Diffusion Models:  An Event History Framework."  Sociological Methods and Research 19: 324-353.

 

Teachman, J. D. 1982 "Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Family Foramtation and Dissolution."  Journal of Marriage and the Family 44:1037-53.

 

Tontodonato, P. 1988. "Explaining rate changes in delinquent arrest transitions using event history analysis." Criminology 26: 439-459.

 

Trussell, J. and C. Hammerslough. 1983. "A hazards model analysis of the covariates of infant and child mortality in Sri Lanka"  Demography 20: 1-26.

 

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Identification

 

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Age-Period-Cohort Conundrum

 

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Influential Outliers

 

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Interaction Effects

 

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Measurement 

 

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Multicollinearity

 

Belsley, D. E. Kuh, and R. Welsch. 1980. "Detecting and assessing collinearity" Pp. 85-121 in Regression Diagnostics (Wiley).

 

Belsley, D. 1986. "Centering, the Constant, First-Differencing, and Assessing Conditioning."  .117-153 in Model Reliability, edited by B. Kuh and E. Kuh.  Cambridge MA:  MIT Press.

 

Blalock, H. 1963. "Correlated independent variables:  The problem of multicollinearity.  Social Forces 42: 233-237.

 

Fisher, J. and R. Mason. 1981. "The analysis of multicollinear data in criminology" Pp. 99-125 in J. Fox (ed.) Methods in Quantitative Criminology (Academic Press).

 

Fox,  J. and G. Monette. 1992. "Generalized Collinearity Diagnostics."  Journal of the American Statistical Association 87:178-183.

 

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Optimal Matching

 

Abbott, A. 1983.  "Sequences of social events."  Historical Methods 16: 129-47.

 

Abbott, A. 1984. "Event sequence and event duration:  Colligation and measurement"  Historical Methods 17: 192-204.

 

Abbot, A. 1988. "Transcending General Linear Reality" Sociological Theory 6:169-86.

 

Abbott, A. 1990. "A Primer on Sequence Methods." Organization Science1:375-392.

 

Abbott, A. 1992. "From Causes to Events:  Notes on Narrative Positivism."  Sociological Methods and Research 20:428-455.

 

Abott, Andrew. 1995. “Sequence Analysis:  New Methods for Old Ideas.”  Annual Review of Sociology 21:93-113.

 

Abbott, A. and J. Forrest. 1986. "Optimal matching methods for historical sequences" J. of Interdisciplinary History 16: 471-94.

 

Abbott, A. and A. Hrycak. 1990. "Measuring resemblance in sequence data:  An optimal matching analysis of musician's careers." American Journal of Sociology 96: 144-185.

 

 

 

Poisson Regression

 

Beck, E. M. and Stewart E. Tolnay. 1995. "Analyzing Historical Count Data:  Poisson and Negative Binomial Regression Models."  Historical Methods 28:125-131.

 

King, Gary. 1988. "Statistical Models for Political Science Event Counts:  Bias in Conventional Procedures and Evidence for the Exponential Poisson Regression Model."  American Journal of Political Science 32:838-863.

 

King, Gary. 1989. "A Seemingly Unrelated Poisson Regression Model."  Sociological Methods and Research 17:235-255.

 

Land, Kenneth C., Patricia L. McCall, and Daniel S. Nagin. 1996. “A Comparison of Poisson, Negative Binomial, and Semiparametric Mixed Poisson Regression Models With Empirical Applications to Criminal Careers Data.” Social Methods and Research 24:387-442.

 

Path Models

 

Spirtes, Peter, Thomas Richardson, Christopher Meek, Richard Scheines, and Clark Glymour. 1998. “Using Path Diagrams as a Structural Equation Modeling Tool.” Sociological Methods & Research 27:182-225

 

Pooled Time Series/Cross Sectional Analysis

 

Expositions and Reviews

 

Baltagi, B. 19  . "Pooling Under Misspecification:  Some Monte Carlo Evidence on the Kmenta and the Error Components Techniques."  Econometric Theory 2:429-440.

 

Beck, Nathaniel, and Katz, Jonathan N. 1996.  “Nuisance vs. Substance: Specifying and Estimating Time-Series-Cross-Section Models.”  Political Analysis 6: 1-36.

 

Beck, Nathaniel, Katz Jonathan, and Tucker, Richard. 1998.  “Taking Time Seriously: Time-Series-Cross-Section Analysis with a Binary Dependent Variable.”  American Journal of Political Science.  42: 1261-1288. 

 

 

Beggs, J. 19   "Time Series Analysis in Pooled Cross-Sections."  Econometric Theory 2:331-349.

 

Berk, R. et al. "Estimation procedures for pooled cross-sectional and time series data." Evaluation Quarterly 3: 385-410.

 

Dielman, Terry E. 1983. "Pooled cross-section and time-series data:  A survey of current statistical methods."  American Statistician 37: 111-122.

 

Dielman, Terry E. 1989. Pooled Cross-Sectional and Time Series Data Analysis. New York: Marcel Dekker.

 

Firebaugh, Glenn. 1980. "Cross National versus Historical Regression Models:  Conditions of Equivalence in Comparative Analysis."  Comparative Social Research 3: 333-344.

 

Hannan, M. and A. Young. 1977. "Estimation in panel models:  Results in pooling cross-sections and time series." Pp. 52-83 in Sociological Methodology.

 

Hicks, Alexander M. 1994. “Introduction to Pooling.” Pp. 169-188 in The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State.  Edited by Thomas Janoski and Alexander Hicks. New York: Cambridge University Press.

 

Hsiao, C. 1986. Analysis of Panel Data (Cambridge University Press).

 

Kaufman, R. 1993. "Decomposing Longitudinal From Cross-Unit Effects in Panel and Pooled Cross-Sectional Designs."  Sociological Methods & Research 21:482-504.

 

Mebane, W. 1990. "Problems of Time and Causality in Survey Cross-Sections."  Political Analysis 2:75-96.

 

Stimson, J. 1985. "Regression in Space and Time:  A Statistical Essay" American Journal of Political Science 29: 914-947.

 

Tucker, H. 1982. "It's About Time:  The Use of Time in Cross-Sectional State Policy Research."  American Journal of Political Science 26:176-196.

 

Wilson, L. 1987. "Trend and Drift and Their Implication for Cross-Sectional Analysis:  An Investigation of Possible Method Bias."  Political Studies Review 7:326-346.

 

Applications

 

England, P. et al. 1988. "Explaining Sex segregation and Wages:  Findings from a Model with Fixed Effects."  American Sociological Review 53: 544-558.

 

Gartner, R., K. Baker and F. Pampel. 1990. "Gender stratification and the gender gap in homicide victimization." Social Problems 37:593-612.

 

 Inverarity, J. and L. Tedrow. 1988. "Unemployment, crime and imprisonment:  A pooled cross section and time series analysis." Unpublished paper, 1988.

 

Markus, G. 1988. "The impact of personal and national economic conditions on the Presidential vote:  A pooled cross-sectional analysis."  American Journal of Political Science   : 137-154.

 

Miethe, T., M. Hughes, and D. McDowall. 1991. "Social change and crime rates:  An evaluation of alternative theoretical approaches."  Social Forces 70:165-185.

 

Sutton, J. 1987. "Doing time:  Dynamics of imprisonment in the reformist state."  American Sociological Review 52: 612-30.

 

Wunnava, P. and J. Henley. 1987. "Pooled cross-section time-series examination of the effects of unemployment insurance compensation on unemployment rate and unemployment duration."  Econometrics Letters 25: 367-71.

 

Wunnava, P. and A. Okunade. 1991 "Cross-sectional versus Panel Estimates of Union Wage Effects." Economics Letters 35:105-110.

 

Rasch Models

 

Andrich, D. 1988. Rash Models for measurement . Sage

 

Fischer, G. and I. Molenear (eds.) Rasch Models:  Foundations, Recent Developments and Applications.  Berlin:  Springer Verlag.

 

http://www.gamma.rug.nl/sibyl.html

 

 

Ratio Variables, Rates, Weighted Least Squares

 

Bradshaw, Y., L. Radill and M. Kraft. 1987. "Comments" ASR 52 (1987): 132-6. "Reply" 136-41.

 

 Wonnacott, R. and T. Wonnacott. 1970. Econometrics., pp. 132-5 (Wiley)

 

 Firebaugh, G. 1988. "The ratio variables hoax in political science."  American J. of Political Science 32: 523-535.

 

Firebaugh, Glenn. and Jack Gibbs. 1985. "User's Guide to Ratio Variables" American Sociological Review 50: 713-22. 

 

Firebaugh, G. and J. Gibbs. 1986. "Using ratio variables to control for population size."  Sociological Methods and Research 15: 101-117.

 

Kasarda, J. and P. Nolan. 1979. "Ratio measures and theoretical inference in social research."  Social Forces 58: 212-27.

 

Kitagawa, E. 1964. "Standardized comparisons in population research" Demography 1: 296-315.

 

Long, S. 1980. "The continuing debate over the use of ratio variables: Fact and fiction." Pp.37-67 in K. Schuessler (ed.) Sociological Methodology. (San Francisco: Jossey Bass)

 

MacMillan, A. and R. Daft. 1979 "Relationships among ratio variables with common components:  Fact or artifact?"  Social Forces 58: 1109-28.

 

Pendleton, B., R. Warent, H. Chang. 1979. "Correlated denominators in multiple regression and change analysis" Sociological Methods and Research 7: 451-74.

 

Uslaner, E. M. 1976. "The pitfalls of per capita" American Journal of Political Science 20: 125-133; Lyons, W.1977 "Per capita index construction:  A defense" Ibid 21: 177-182; Uslaner, E. 1977. "Straight lines and straight thinking:  Can all of those econometricians be wrong?"  Ibid 21: 183-191

 

Reciprocal Causation

 

Cramer, J. 1980. "Fertility and female employment:  Problems of causal direction."  American Sociological Review 45 : 67-90.   Comment by Alexander, K., T. Reilly and J. Fennessey. 1981. "Issues in instrumental variable analysis." 46 : 937-41; Cramer reply IBID: 942.

 

Duncan, O. et al. 1971. "Peer influences and aspirations:  A reinterpretation." Pp. 219-44 in H. Blalock (ed.) Causal Models in the Social Sciences.(Aldine).  Note: the 1968 AJS article contains several errors.

 

Hout, M. 1977. "A cautionary note on the use of two-stage least squares"  Sociological Methods and Research 5: 335-45.

 

Jackson, P. and L. Carroll. 1981. "Race and the war on crime:  The sociopolitical determinants of municipal police expenditures"  American Sociological Review 46: 290-306

 

 James, L. and B. Singh. 1978. "An introduction to the logic, assumptions and analytic procedures of 2SLS" Psychological Bulletin 85: 1104-22.

 

Kohn, M. and C. Schooler. 1982. "Job conditions and personality:  A longitudinal assessment of their reciprocal effects." American Journal of Sociology 87: 1257-1286.

 

Marvell, Thomas B. and Carlisle E. Moody. 1996. “Specification Problems, Police Levels, and Crime Rates.” Criminology 34:609-646.

 

 

Selection Bias 

 

 Berk, R. 1983. "An introduction to sample selection bias in sociological data."  American Sociological Review 48: 386-398.

 

Berk, R. and S. Ray. 1982. "Selection bias in sociological data."  Social Science Research 11:352-398.

 

Blumstein, Alfred, Jose A. Canela-Cacho, and Jacqueline Cohen. 1993. "Filtered Sampling from Populations with Heterogeneous Event Frequencies." Managment Science 39:886-899.

 

Collier, David, and James Mahoney. 1996. “Insights and Pitfalls: Selection Bias in Qualitative Research.” World Politics 49:56-91

 

Dubin, J. and D. Rivers. 1989. "Selection bias in linear regresion, logit, and probit models."  Sociological Methods and Research 18: 360-390.

 

Duncan, Susan C. and Terry E. Duncan. 1994. "Modeling Incomplete Latent Variable Growth Curve Methodology."  Multivariate Behavioral Research 29:313-338.

 

Geddes, Barbara. 1990. "How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias in Comparative Politics."  Political Analysis 2:131-150.

 

Hausman, J. and D. Wise. 1977. "Social experimentation, truncated distributions and efficient estimation."  Econometrica 45: 919-938.

 

 

Heckman, James. 1976. "The common structure of statistical models of truncation, sample selection and limited dependent variables and a simple estimator for such models."  Annals of Economic and Social Measurement 5/4: 475-92.

 

Heckman, James. 1979. "Sample selection bias as a specification error." Econometrica 45: 153-61.

 

 

Heckman, James. 1990. “Varieties of Selection Bias.” American Economic Review 80:313-318.

 

Little, R. 1985. "A note about models for selectivity bias"     Econometrica 53: 1469-1473

 

Little, R. and D. Rubin. 1989. "The analysis of social science data with missing values."  Sociological Methods and Research 18: 292-326.

 

Manski, Charles F. 1989. "Anatomy of the Selection Problem."  Journal of Human Resources 24:344-360.

 

Olsen, R. 1980.  "A least squares correction for selectivity bias."  Econometrica 48: 1815-1820.

 

 Stolzenberg, R. and D. Relles. 1990. "Theory testing in a world of constrained research design:  The significance of Heckman's censored sampling bias correction for nonexperimental research."  Sociological Methods and Research 18: 395-415.

 

Winship, C. and R. Mare. 1992. "Models for Sample Selection Bias."  Annual Review of Sociology 18:327-50.

 

Simultaneous Equations:  Identification; Single and        Systems Equation Models 

 

 Hertig, J. 1984. "Multiple indicator models using LISREL.  Pp.285-288 in H. Blalock (ed.) Causal Models (2nd ed.)

 

 Kennedy, ch. 9

 

 Kenney, D. "Identification" Pp.34-41 in Correlation and Causality (N.Y.: Wiley)

 

Spatial Autocorrelation

 

Arora, S. and M. Brown. 1977. "Alternative approaches to spatial autocorrelation:  An improvement over current practice."  International Regional Science Review 2: 67-78.

 

Cressie, N. and N. Chan. 1989. "Spatial modeling of regional variables"  J. of the American Statistical Association 84 393-401.

 

Doreian, P. 1980. "Linear models with spatially distributed data:  Spatial disturbances or spatial effects?"  Sociological Methods and Research 9: 29-60.

 

Glick, B. 1979. "The spatial autocorrelation of cancer mortality."  Social Science and Medicine 13D: 123-30.

 

Hubert, L. et al. 1981. "Generalized procedures for evaluating spatial autocorrelation."  Geographical Analysis 13: 224-233.

 

Jones, J. P. III amd S. A. Foster. 1991.  "Testing Regression Residuals for Spatial Autocorrelation Using SAS:  A Technical Note."  Geography Research Forum 11:78-83.

 

Land, K. and G. Deane. 1992. "On the Large-Sample Estimation of Regression Models with Spatial- or Network-Effects terms:  A Two-Stage Least Squares Approach."  Sociological Methodology 22:221-248.

 

Land, K. and G. Deane and J. Blau. 1991. "Religious Pluralism and Church Membership:  A Spatial Diffusion Model."  American Sociological Review 34:850-62.

 

 Loftin, C. 1972. "Galton's problem as spatial autocorrelation:  Comments on Ember's empirical test" Ethnology 11: 425-35.

 

 Loftin, C. and S. Ward. 1983. "A spatial autocorrelation model of the effects of population density on fertility"  American Sociological Review 48: 121-128.

 

Miron, J. 1984. "Spatial autocorrelation in regression analysis:  A beginner's guide" Pp. 201-222 in G, Gaile and C. Willmott (eds.) Spatial Statistics and Models. (Dortrecht: Reidel)

 

Naroll, R. 1965. "Galton's problem:  The logic of cross cultural research."  Social Research 32: 428-51.

 

Odland, J. 1988. Spatial Autocorrelation  (Sage)

 

Specification Errors: Wrong models, nonlinearity, variable parameters

 

"It behooves us to consider prayerfully how much damage is done when our assumptions are, in fact, wrong." - J. Davis

 

 Alwin, D. and R. Hauser. 1975. "The decomposition of effects in path analysis."  American Sociological Review 40 : 37-47.

Pp. 97-116 in Marsden (ed.) Linear Models in Social Research

 

 Armstrong, J. 1967. "Derivation of theory by means of factor analysis or Tom Swift and his electric factor analysis machine." American Statistician 21: 17-21.

 

Bagozzi, Richard P. and Yi Youjae. 1989. "On the Use of Structural Equation Models in Experimental Research."  Journal of Marketing Research 26:271-84.

 

Beggs, John J. 1988. "Diagnostic Testing in Applied Econometrics."  Economic Record 64:81-101.

 

Bhargava, A. 1986. "On the theory of testing for unit roots in observed time series."  Review of Economic Studies 53:369-84.

 

 

Bohrnstedt, G. and M. Carter. 1971. "Robustness in regression analysis." Sociological Methodology: 118-46.

 

Cohen, J. 1968. "Multiple regression as a general data-analytic system" Psychological Bulletin 70: 416-43.

 

De Veaux, R. 1989.  "Finding transformations for regression using the ACE algorithm."  Sociological Methods and Research 18:327-359.

 

Duncan, O. 1971. "Path analysis: Sociological Examples" Pp. 115-138 in H. Blalock (ed.) Causal Models in the Social Sciences (Aldine).

 

Duncan, O. 1969. "Inheritance of poverty or inheritance of race?" Ch. 4 in D. Moynihan (ed.) On Understanding Poverty (Basic Books).

 

Dewlad, W. et al. 1986. "Replication in empirical economics" American Economic Review 76: 587-603.

 

Fraker, T. and R. Maynard. 198 . "The Adequacy of Comparison Group Designs for Evaluations of Employment-related Programs."  Journal of Human Resources 22:

 

Freeman, D. 1983. "A note on screening regression equations."  American Statistician 37: 152-155.

 

Godrey, L. and M. Wickens. 1981. "Testing linear and log-linear regressions for functional form."  Review of Economic Studies 48: 487-96.

 

Godfrey, L. G. , M. McAleer, and C. McKenzie. 1988. "Variable Addition and LaGrange Multiplier Tests for Linear and Logarithmic Regression Models." Review of Economics and Statistics 70:492-503.

 

 

Goldberger, A. 1984. "Reverse Regression and Salary Discrimination."  Journal of Human Resources 19:293-318.

 

Hausman, J. 1978. "Specification tests in econometrics" Econometrica 46: 1251-71.

 

Herting, J. and H. Costner. 1984. "Respecification in multiple indicator models" Pp. 321-393 in H. Blalock (ed.) Causal Models in the Social Sciences (2nd ed.)

 

Hoelter, J. 1983. "The analysis of covariance structures:  Goodness-of-fit indices."  Sociological Methods and Research 11: 325-344.

 

Hoffman, Philip T. 1984. "Wills and Statistics:  Tobit Analysis and the Coutner Reformation in Lyon."  Journal of Interdisciplinary History 14:813-34.

 

Jagodzinski, Wolfgang and Erich Weede. 1981. “Testing Curvilinear Propositions by Polynomial Regression with Particular Reference to the Interpretation of Standardized Solutions.” Quality and Quantity 15:447-463.

 

Kaplan, David. 1990. “Evaluating and Modifying Covariance Structure Models: A Review and Recommendation.” Multivariate Behavioral Research 25:137-155.

 

 

Kenney, D. "Principles of path analysis" Pp. 22-34 in Cause and Correlation.

 

Kim, J. "Sensitivity analysis in sociological research." American Sociological Review 49: 272-282.

 

Kraemer, W., H. Sonnberger, J. Maurer and P. Havlik. "Diagnostic Checking in Practice."  Review of Economics and Statistics      118-123.

 

Land, K. and M. Felson. 1978. "Sensitivity Analysis of Arbitrarily Identified Simultaneous Equation Models." Sociological Methods and Research 6: 213-306.

 

Leamer, E. 1983. "Let's Take the Con Out of Econometrics." American Economic Review 73: 31-43.

 

Leamer, E. and H. Leonard. 1983. "Reporting the fragility of regression estimates."  Review of Economics and Statistics: 306-17.

 

Lieberson, S. 1985. Making it Count The Improvement of Social Research and Theory (University of California Press)

 

  Long, J. S. 19   "Assessment of fit in the confirmatory factor model" Pp. 61-78 in Confirmatory Factor Models.

 

Long, J. S. and P. Trivedi. 1992.  "Some Specification Tests for the Linear Regression Model."  Sociological Methods and Research 21:161-208.

 

 Long, J. S. and P. K. Trivedi. 1992. "Some Specification Tests for the Linear Regression Model." Sociological Methods and Research 21:161-204.

 

Looney, Stephen W. 1995. "How to Use Tests for Univariate Normality to Assess Multivariate Normality."  American Statistician 49:64-70.

 

Lovell, M. 1983. "Data mining" Review of Economics and Statistics 65: 1-12.

 

 

MacCallum, R. 1986. "Specification searches in covariance structural modeling."  Psychological Bulletin 100: 107-120.

 

Morrison, D. and R. Heckel (eds.) The Significance Test Controversy:  A Reader. Chicago:  Aldine, 1970).

 

Overall, S. 1964. "Note on the scientific status of factors."  Psychological Bulletin 61: 270-276.

 

Plosser, C., G. Schwert and H.White. 1982. "Differencing as a test of specification."  International Economic Review 23: 535-552.

 

 

 Rindskopf, D. 1984. "Structural equation models:  Empirical identification, Heywood cases and related problems"  Sociological Methods and Research 12: 109-119.

 

Rindskopf, D. 19   "Parameterizing inequality constraints on unique variances in linear structural models."  Psychometrika 48: 73-83.

 

Saris, W., A. Satorra, D. Soerbom. 1989. "The detection and correction of specification errors in structural equation models." Sociological Methodology.

 

Satorra, A. 1990. "Robustness Issues in Structural Equation Modeling:  A Review of Recent Developments."  Quality and Quantity 24:367-386.

 

Smith, H. 1990. "Specification Problems in Experimental and Nonexperimental Social Research."  Sociological Methodology 20:59-91.

 

Thurow, L. 1984. "Econometrics: The ice breaker caught in the ice." Pp.104-23 in Dangerous Currents:  The State of Economics. (N.Y.: Vintage)

 

Thursby, J. 1979. "Alternative specification error tests:  A comparative study."  JASA 74: 222-225.

 

Thursby, J. and P. Schmidt. 1977. "Some properties of tests for specification error in a linear regression model."  JASA 72: 635-41.

Winch, R. and D. Campbell. 1959. "Proof? No. Evidence? Yes.  The significance of tests of significance."  American Sociologist 4:140-3.

 


 Statistical Power

 

Bentler Brit J. of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

 

Bearden, W. et al. 1982. "Sample size effects on chi square and other statistics used in evaluating causal models."  Journal of Marketing Research 19: 425-30.

 

Cohen, Jacob. 1992. "A Power Primer." Psychological Bulletin 112:153-159.

 

Green, Samuel B. 1991. ""How Many Subjects Does It Take To Do a Regression Analysis."  Multivariate Behavioral Research 26:499-510.

 

Milton, Sande. “A Sample Size Formula for Multiple Regression Studies.” Public Opinion Quarterly 50:112-118.

 

Tankana, J. 1987. "'How big is big enough'?:  Sample size and goodness of fit in structural models with latent variables."  Child Development 58: 134-146.

 

Weisburd, David. 1993. "Design Sensitivity in Criminal Justice Experiments."  Crime and Justice 17:337-379.

 

 

Theory

 

"General theory is the difference between science and a wastebasket" - M. Zelditch

 

Armstrong, J. 1967. "Derivation of Theory by Means of Factor Analysis or Tom Swift and his Electric factor Analysis Machine." American Statistician 21: 17-21.

 

 Barry, B. 1965. "On analogy" Political Studies 2: 208-24.

 

 Bierstedt, R. 1949. "A critique of empiricism in sociology."  American Sociological Review 14: 584-92.

 

 Blaug, M. 1980. "What you always wanted to know about the philosophy of science but were afraid to ask."  Pp.1-54 in The Methodology of Economics (Cambridge University Press).

 

Elkana, Y.  "Two tiered thinking:  Philosophical realism and historical relativism."  Social Studies in Science 8: 309-26.

 

 Elster, J. 1978. "Contradictions of the mind." Pp.65-99 in Logic and Society.  (New York: Wiley)

 

Galton, F. 1872. "Statistical inquiries into the efficacy of prayer."  Fortnightly Review 63: 125-135.

 

Harris, R. 1976. "The uncertain connection between verbal theories and research hypotheses in social psychology."  Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 12: 210-219.

 

 Horan, P. 1978. "Is status attainment atheoretical?"  American Sociological Review 43: 534-41.

 

 Hirschi, T. and H. Selvin. 1966.  "False criteria of causality in delinquency research." Social Problems 13: 254-68; Pp.114-41 in Principles of Survey Research.

 

Hirschi, T. and H. Selvin. "Principles of causal analysis." Pp.32-57 in Principles of Survey Analysis. (previous title: Delinquency Research.

 

 Inverarity, J. 1983. "Forms of Sociological explanation" Pp. 25-39 in Law and Society. (Boston: Little, Brown)

 

Lakatos, I. 1970. "Falsification and the methodology of scientific research programmes."  Pp. 91-138 in Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. (Cambridge University Press).

 

Leik, R.  "Let's work inductively too." Pp.177-191 in W. Snizck

(ed.) Issues in Theory and Research a Metasociological Perspective.

      

Lovell, M. 1983. "Data mining." Review of Economics and Statistics

 65: 1-12.

 

Merton, R. 1968. "The bearing of sociological theory on empirical research"; The bearing of empirical research on sociological theory" Pp. 139-171 in  Social Theory and Social Structure. (Free Press)

 

 Nagel, E. 1961. "Contrary to fact universals" Pp. 68-73 in The Structure of  Science.  (N. Y.:  Harcourt).

 

Popper, K. 1962. "W "What is dialectic?" Pp. 312-35 in Conjectures and Refutations. (New York: Basic Books).

 

Rapaport, A. "The search for simplicity." Pp. 15-30 in E. Laszlo (ed.) The  Relevance of General Systems Theory.

 

 Selltiz, C. et al. 1964. "Research and Theory" P. 479-499 in Research Methods in  Social Relations.  Second Edition.  (Holt, Rinehart and Winston)

 

Selvin, H. and A. Stuart. 1966. "Data dredging procedures in survey analysis."  American Statistician: 20-23.

 

Stinchcombe, A. 1968. "Complex causal structures:  Demographic,

functional and historicist explanations of social phenomena." 

Pp.57-148 in Constructing Social Theories.(N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace, and World).

 

Zelditch, M. 1985. "The logic of presuppositions"  Contemporary Sociology 14: 287-91.

 

Time Series Data 

 

Allison, P. "Change Scores as Dependent Variables in Regression Analysis."  Sociological Methodology 93-114.

 

Allison, Paul D. 1994. "Using Panel Data to Estimate the Effects of Events." Sociological Methods and Research 23:174-199.

 

Ames, E. and S. Reiter. 1961. "Distributions of Correlation Coefficients in Economic Time Series." Journal of American Statistical Association 56:637-656.

 

Baron, James and Peter Reiss. 1985. "Same Time Next Year:  Aggregate Analysis of the Mass Media and Violent Behavior."  American Sociological Review 50: 347-

 

Coleman, J. "Mathematical study of change." Pp.428-78 in H. Blalock and A. Blalock (eds.) Methods in Social Research..

 

Cook, T. et al. 1980. "The causal analysis of concomitant time series." Pp. 93-135 in L. Bickman (ed.) Applied Social Psychology Annual., vol. 1 (Sage).

 

Davies, R. B. and A. R. Pickles. 1985."Longitudianl versus Cross-sectional Methods for Behavioural Research:  A First-round Knockout." Enviornment and Planning A17:1315-29.

 

Dickey, D. W. Bell and R. Miller. 1986 "Unit Roots in Time Series Models:  Tests and Implications."  American Statistician 40:12-26.

 

Duncan, Terry E. and Susan C. Duncan.  “Modeling Developmental Processes Using Latent Growth Structural Equation Methodology.” Applied Psychological Measurement 18:343-354.

 

Engle, R. and M. Watson. 1981. "One Factor Multivariate Time Series Model of Metropolitan Wage Rates."  Journal of the American Statistical Association 76:774-781

 

Firebaugh, Glenn and Frank D. Beck. 1994. "Does Economic Growth Benefit the Masses?:  Growth, Dependence, and Welfare in the Third World."  American Sociological Review 59:631-653.

 

Godfrey, L. 1987. "Discriminating between autocorrelation and misspecification in regression analysis:  An alternative test strategy."  Review of Economics and Statistics 69: 128-134.

 

Goldstone, J. 1980. "The weakness of organizations:  A new look at Gamson's The Strategy of Protest" American Journal of Sociology 85: 1017-60,1428-32

 

Gollub, H. and C. Reichardt. 1987. "Taking account of time lags in causal models."  Child Development 58: 80-92.

 

Gouda, Rrances and Peter H.Smith. 1983 "Famine, Crime, and Gender in Nineteenth Century France:  Explorations in Time-series Analysis."  Historical Methods 16:59-73.

 

 Granger, C. and P. Newbold. 1974. "Spurious regressions in   econometrics." Journal of Econometrics 2: 111-20.

 

Griffin, L and L. Isaac. 1992. "Recursive Regression and the Historical Use of `Time' in Time-Series Analysis of Historical Process."  Historical Methods 25:166-179.

 

 Hendry, D. and G. Mizon. 1978. "Serial correlation as a convenient   simplification, not a nuisance:  A comment on a study of the demand   for money by the Bank of England" The Economic Journal 88:549-563.

 

Henrickson, Leslie and Barnie Jones.  1987. "A Study of Longitudinal Causal Models Comparing Gain Score Analysis with Structural Equation Approaches."  Pp. 86-107 in Peter Cuttance and Russell Ecob. Structural Modeling by Example.  New York:  Cambridge University Press.

 

Hibbs, D. 1977. "On analyzing the effects of policy intervention:  Box-Jenkins and Box-Tiao vs. structural equation models"  Pp.137-79 in Sociological Methodology.

 

Hibbs, D. 1973-1974. "Problems of statistical estimation and causal inference in time series regression models."  Pp.252-308 in   Sociological Methodology.

 

Isaac, L. and L. Griffin. 1989. "A historicism in Time-series Analyses of Historical Processes." American Sociological Review 54:873-90.

 

Janoski, Thomas and Larry W. Isaac. 1994. Introduction to Time-Series Analysis. Pp. 31-53 in The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State.  Edited by Thomas Janoski and Alexander Hicks. New York: Cambridge University Press.

 

 Lieberson, S.  L. Hanson. 1974. "National development, mother tongue diversity and the comparative study of nations." American Sociological Review 39: 523-41. (A good non-technical discussion of the potential contradictions between outcomes of cross-sectional and time-series analysis.)  cf. Nettle, Daniel. 2000. “Linguistic Fragmentation and the Wealth of Nations: the Fishman-Pool Hypothesis Reexamined.” Economic Development and Cultural Change ??:335-348

 

 

Kessler, R. and D. Greenberg. 1981. Linear Panel Analysis:  Models of  Quantitative  Change.. (New York: Academic Press)

 

Kulka, R. 1982. "Monitoring Social Change via Survey Replication:  Prospects and Pitfalls from a Replication Survey of Social Roles and Mental Health."  Journal of Social Issues 38: 17-38.

 

 Liker, J., S. Augustyniak and G. Duncan. 1985. "Panel data and methods of change:  A comparison of first difference and conventional two-wave models."  Social Science Research 14: 80-101.

 

Mairesse, Jacques.  1990. "Time-series and Cross-sectional Estimates on Panel Data:  Why are they Different and Why Should They be Equal?"  Pp. 81-95 in Panel Data and Labor Market Studies, edited by J. Hartog, G. Ridder and J. Theeuwes.  Elsevier.

 

May, R. 1976. "Simple mathematical models with very complicated dynamics" Nature 261: 459-467

 

Murray, G. and P. Erickson. 1987 "Cross-sectional versus Longitudinal Research:  An Empirical Comparison of Projected and Subsequent Criminality."  Social Science Research 16: 107-118.

 

Nelson, C. and H. Kang. 1981. "Spurious Periodicity in Inappropriately Detrended Time Series." Econometrica 49:741-751.

 

Nelson, C. and C. Plosser. 1982. "Trends and Random Walks in Macroeconomic Time Series."  Journal of Monetary Economics 10:139-162.s

 

Nielson, F. and R. Rosenfeld. 1981. "Substantive interpretations of differential equation models" American Sociological Review 46: 159-74; 933-937.

 

 Ostrum, C. 1980. Time Series:  Regression Techniques, pp. 9-57 (Sage Paper #9).

 

Pagan, A. 1987. "Three Econometric Methodologies:  A Critical Appraisal." Journal of Economic Surveys 1:3-24.

 

Petersen, T. 1993. "Recent Advances in Longitudinal Methodology"  Annual Review of Sociology 19:425-54.

 

Perron, P. 1988. "Trends and Random Walks in Macroeconomic Time Series." Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 12:291-332.

 

Plosser, C. and G. Schwert. 1977. "Estimation of a Non-invertible Moving Average Process:  The Case of Overdifferencing."  Journal of Econometrics 6:199-224.

 

Rogosa, D. 198 .  "Causal models in longitudinal research:  Rationale, formulation and interpretation." Pp. 263-302 in J. Nesselroade and P. Baltes (ed.) Longitudinal Research in the  Study of Behavior and Development. (New York:  Academic Press).

 

Sigelman, L. 1991. "Turning Cross Sections into a Panel:  Simple Procedure for Ecological Inference."  Social Science Research 20:150-170.

 

 Snyder, D. and C. Tilly. 1972. "Hardship and collective violence"  American Sociological Review 37: 520-32; ASR 38: 495-503.  θAn interesting example of research conducted without an understanding of autocorrelation.

 

Wheaton, Blair. 1978. "The Sociogenesis of Psychological Disorder:  Reexamining the Causal Issue with Longitudinal Data." American Sociological Review 43: 383-403.