Exit Polling and Racial Bloc Voting: Combining Individual-Level and R x C Ecological Data
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Exit Polling and Racial Bloc Voting: Combining Individual-level and R × C Ecological Data by D. James Greiner
Despite its shortcomings, cross-level or ecological inference remains a necessary part of some areas of quantitative inference, including in United States voting rights litigation. Ecological inference suffers from a lack of identification that, most agree, is best addressed by incorporating individuallevel data into the model. In this paper we test the limits of such an incorporation by attemp...
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عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1429319