Contextual Analysis

By Gudmund R. Iversen

Contextual analysis, the study of the role of the group context on actions and attitudes of individuals, is a useful technique in the study of education, neighborhoods, census tracts, election districts, and the family. However, the effective use of contextual analysis has involved overcoming a number of issues, such as group boundaries, the mobility of the individuals within a group, overlapping groups, missing individual data, and the choice of statistical models. Contextual Analysis offers researchers a guide for selecting the best model to use. Written in a straightforward style, the book explores such topics as contextual analysis with absolute effects, with relative effects, and the choice between regression coefficients as fixed parameters or as random variables.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803942729
• ISBN13: 9780803942721
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.4"