Questions tagged [social-science]
For on-topic statistical questions involving social science. Please include also some statistical methods tag.
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Can samples be grouped for principal component analysis? Are there any tests needed?
I have two groups of people, those who are involved in public affairs and those who are not. At the same time, I have five types of capital for these people. I want to explore the mix of capital ...
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Are there coventions on reporting weighted sample sizes?
Suppose I analyze survey data and calculate weighted means. Should I report the sample size if it differs from the unweighted sample size, as would be the case with non-normalized weights? It seems ...
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Does it make sense to model population distributions as independent from individual distributions? (social sciences)
Let's start with an example. Consider that each individual $i$ in a group of size $n$ throws a dice, where each dice is different (random variable $X_i$, notice subindex $i$).
In social sciences, we ...
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A policy evaluation with a dependent variable which is continuous and in (0,1) interval
I am conducting research in which I want to investigate the effect of tax incentives on research and development intensity in a group of firms. I have access to the data of a survey that:
It's only ...
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Regression Method for a Survey Repeatedly Asking the Effects of Various Policies
I have survey results where I repeatedly asked the respondents about the effects of various policies.
The questions are as follows: "Let's assume you went back to the time when you were a high ...
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DiD control treatment group choice
I need to evaluate the impact of the Labour-Intensive Public Works programme on social cohesion using DiD. I chose a set of control variables and an outcome variable. The thing is to choose the right ...
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Altering demographics data that was responded incorrectly in a survey to be published in a journal [closed]
Cross-posted (kind of) from Academia Stack Exchange
We have a research paper that we want to get published in a journal. The paper is some simple statistical analysis of a survey we made. One of the ...
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entries into machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence for social scientists
As far as CrossValidated allows users to ask for reference,
does anyone know (top-notch, authoritative) books, resources, or references about ML, DL, or AI for social scientists?
If there are still &...
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Calculating confidence in part of a sample (explain like I'm in the humanities please :) )
Working on a two-part project. First, we're estimating the total size of a very large population. Each member of the population has a standardized random 15-digit identifier, and we have guessed using ...
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How to compare the socioeconomic status between two populations after applying multiple correspondence analysis?
I have two datasets of two populations (before and after)
with the task to create socioeconomic quintiles. Through many variables such as household assets and household quality, I used MCA (R language)...
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Finding gateway discussion groups from online posts
I'm looking at online discussion group participation and I'm trying to determine whether posting to group A increases the likelihood of subsequently posting to group B empirically (is A a gateway ...
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MCA : interpretation for contribution and correlation
According to the definitions:
The correlation matrix reports the correlation of each variable with each dimension.
Contribution refers to the contribution of each category of each variable to the ...
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How to interpret the Rasch reliability?
I am tasked to model a set of questionnaires in order to investigate about the food insecurity in the region where my project takes place. Using the Rasch model, I was able to conduct the protocol ...
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Should I use composite or latent variables?
I am writing my master thesis about how the difference between majority's (Belgians) opinion about socially relevant topics and majority's perception of minority's (Turks and Moroccan's) opinion about ...
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Should this be an ANOVA or a MANOVA?
I'm fairly new to statistics and am struggling to figure out whether I should be using ANOVA or MANOVA for my research design:
Participants will watch a performance together in one of three different ...
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