Ecological Inference: New Methodological Strategies brings
together a diverse group of scholars to survey the latest strategies
for solving ecological inference problems in various fields. The last
half decade has witnessed an explosion of research in ecological
inference -- the attempt to infer individual behavior from aggregate
data. The uncertainties and the information lost in aggregation make
ecological inference one of the most difficult areas of statistical
inference, but such inferences are required in many academic fields,
as well as by legislatures and the courts in redistricting, by
businesses in marketing research, and by governments in policy
analysis.
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