Search Results - subject:"ecological inference"

Urban income and city size: Ecological Inference with Entropy Econometrics for the Spanish municipalities

Fernández-Vázquez, Esteban; Rubiera-Morollón, Fernando; … - Instituto Universitario de Análisis Económico y … - 2009

exercise of ecological inference. In addition to the analysis of the main characteristics of the techniques proposed, the paper …

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A cluster analysis of vote transitions

Puig, Xavier; Ginebra, Josep - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 70 (2014) C, pp. 328-344

a solution for any ecological inference problem where one cannot assume that all the areas are exchangeable the way … typically assumed by other ecological inference methods. …

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Estimating floating voters: a comparison between the ecological inference and the survey methods

Russo, Luana - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 48 (2014) 3, pp. 1667-1683

There are two main approaches to estimating the proportion of the electorate who are floating voters: the survey method and the ecological estimate method. Both the methods have their advantages and their problems. The main difficulties with the survey method are the coverage of the sample and...

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Aggregation level matters: evidence from french electoral data

Russo, Luana; Beauguitte, Laurent - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 48 (2014) 2, pp. 923-938

This paper, issued from the Cartelec project, raises a methodological issue regarding ecological inference. Studying …

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Applying entropy econometrics to estimate data at a disaggregated spatial scale

Fernandez-Vazquez, Esteban; Lemelin, Andre; … - In: Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences 7 (2014) 3, pp. 159-169

exists. Filling the gaps by combining data from diverse sources usually requires data conciliation. Ecological inference and …

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Applying entropy econometrics to estimate data at a disaggregated spatial scale

Fernandez-Vazquez, Esteban; Lemelin, André; Rubiera … - In: Letters in spatial and resource sciences : LSRS 7 (2014) 3, pp. 159-169

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Quantile regression with aggregated data

Nicoletti, Cheti; Best, Nicky - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 2, pp. 401-404

Analyses using aggregated data may bias inference. In this work we show how to aggregate data to avoid or at least reduce this bias when estimating quantile regressions.

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A revised Brown and Payne model of voting behaviour applied to the 2009 elections in Italy

Forcina, A.; Gnaldi, M.; Bracalente, B. - In: Statistical Methods and Applications 21 (2012) 1, pp. 109-119

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Some Empirical Evidence on the Impact of Measurement Errors in Making Ecological Inferences

Cho, Wendy K. T.; Judge, George G. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2003

We seek to identify the impact of data measurement error problems in the context of ecological inference applications … inference process. The focus of our analysis is on applications of ecological inference in cases involving the Voting Rights Act …

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On the (In)Consistency of Citizen and Municipal Level Indicators of Social Capital and Local Government Performance

Kampen, Jarl - In: Social Indicators Research 97 (2010) 2, pp. 213-228

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