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Evaluating the Cumulative Impact of Childhood Misfortune: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach. 评估童年不幸的累积影响:一个结构方程模型方法。

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Epub Date: 2019-09-24 DOI: 10.1177/0049124119875957

Sarah Mustillo, Miao Li, Kenneth F Ferraro

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引用次数: 3

Uncertainty, Possibility, and Causal Power in QCA QCA中的不确定性、可能性和因果力

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2021-07-27 DOI: 10.1177/00491241211031268

R. Rutten

引用次数: 13

Open-ended versus Closed Probes: Assessing Different Formats of Web Probing 开放式与封闭式探测:评估不同形式的网络探测

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2021-07-21 DOI: 10.1177/00491241211031271

C. Neuert, Katharina Meitinger, Dorothée Behr

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引用次数: 5

Are National Family Surveys Biased toward the Happy Family? A Multiactor Analysis of Selective Survey Nonresponse 全国家庭调查是否偏向幸福家庭?选择性调查无应答的多因素分析

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2021-07-02 DOI: 10.1177/0049124120986208

M. Kalmijn

引用次数: 6

Evidence of Validity Does not Rule out Systematic Bias: A Commentary on Nomological Noise and Cross-Cultural Invariance 有效性证据不排除系统偏差:法噪声与跨文化不变性述评

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2021-06-16 DOI: 10.1177/00491241221091756

R. Fischer, J. Karl, Johnny Fontaine, Y. Poortinga

引用次数: 8

Fear Not Scarcity but Inequality, Not Poverty but Instability 不要害怕匮乏，要害怕不平等;不要害怕贫穷，要害怕不稳定

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2021-06-15 DOI: 10.1177/00491241211024295

Weihua An

引用次数: 3

Optimizing Consistency and Coverage in Configurational Causal Modeling 配置因果建模中的一致性和覆盖率优化

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2021-06-03 DOI: 10.1177/0049124121995554

Michael Baumgartner, Mathias Ambühl

引用次数: 5

Network Diffusion Under Homophily and Consolidation as a Mechanism for Social Inequality 同质与巩固下的网络扩散:社会不平等的机制

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2021-05-28 DOI: 10.1177/00491241211014237

Linda Zhao, F. Garip

引用次数: 31

A Theory of Higher Order Interactions Between Sensitive Variables: Empirical Evidences and an Application to a Variety of Smoking 敏感变量之间的高阶相互作用理论：经验证据及其在各种吸烟中的应用

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2021-05-20 DOI: 10.1177/0049124120986203

Oluwaseun L. Olanipekun, JuLong Zhao, Rongdong Wang, Stephen A.Sedory, Sarjinder Singh

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引用次数: 3

Robustness and Model Selection in Configurational Causal Modeling 组态因果模型的鲁棒性与模型选择

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2021-05-20 DOI: 10.1177/0049124120986200

Veli-Pekka Parkkinen, Michael Baumgartner

引用次数: 10