Multilevel Modeling of Social Problems A Causal Perspective /

• Main Author: Smith, Robert B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Statistics.; Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.

Uniquely focusing on intersections of social problems, multilevel statistical modeling, and causality, the substantively and methodologically integrated chapters of this book clarify basic strategies for developing and testing multilevel linear models (MLMs), and drawing casual inferences from such...

Table of Contents:

• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• List of Tables and Figures
• Overview of Book Chapters
• Part 1, Introductory Essays
• 1.Contextual Analysis and Multilevel Models
• 2.Stable Association and Potential Outcomes
• 3.Dependency Networks
• 4.Uses for Multilevel Models
• Part 2, Contextual Studies
• 5.Global Human Development
• 6.A Globalized Conflict
• 7.Will Claims Workers Dislike a Fraud Detector?
• Part 3, Evaluative Research
• 8.Target, Matched, and Not-Matched Schools
• 9.Using Propensity Scores
• Part 4, Research Summaries
• 10.Gatekeepers and Sentinels
• 11.Childhood Vaccinations and Autism
• 12.Conclusion: Gauging Causality in Multilevel Models
• Acronyms
• Glossary
• References
• Index.