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A Bayesian Semi-Parametric Approach for Modeling Memory Decay in Dynamic Social Networks 动态社会网络中记忆衰减建模的贝叶斯半参数方法

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-08-15 DOI: 10.1177/00491241221113875

Giuseppe Arena, Joris Mulder, Roger Th. A.J. Leenders

引用次数: 5

The Design and Optimality of Survey Counts: A Unified Framework Via the Fisher Information Maximizer 调查计数的设计与优化:基于Fisher信息最大化器的统一框架

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-08-08 DOI: 10.1177/00491241221113877

Xin Guo, Qiang Fu

引用次数: 0

A Comparison of Three Popular Methods for Handling Missing Data: Complete-Case Analysis, Inverse Probability Weighting, and Multiple Imputation 三种常用的缺失数据处理方法的比较:全案例分析、逆概率加权和多重插值

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-08-05 DOI: 10.1177/00491241221113873

Roderick J. Little, James R. Carpenter, Katherine J. Lee

引用次数: 10

The Age-Period-Cohort-Interaction Model for Describing and Investigating Inter-cohort Deviations and Intra-cohort Life-course Dynamics. 用于描述和研究队列间偏差和队列内生命历程动态的年龄-时期-队列-互动模型。

IF 6.5 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Epub Date: 2020-01-23 DOI: 10.1177/0049124119882451

Liying Luo, James S Hodges

引用次数: 0

The Future Strikes Back: Using Future Treatments to Detect and Reduce Hidden Bias. 未来的反击利用未来疗法检测和减少隐藏的偏见。

IF 6.5 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Epub Date: 2019-10-03 DOI: 10.1177/0049124119875958

Felix Elwert, Fabian T Pfeffer

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引用次数: 0

Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry 谁对谁做了什么?使文本解析器为社会学研究工作

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-05-13 DOI: 10.1177/00491241221099551

Oscar Stuhler

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引用次数: 1

A Language-Based Method for Assessing Symbolic Boundary Maintenance between Social Groups 一种基于语言的社会群体间符号边界维护评估方法

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-05-13 DOI: 10.1177/00491241221099555

Anjali M. Bhatt, Amir Goldberg, S. Srivastava

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引用次数: 6

BIC extensions for order-constrained model selection. 用于订单约束模型选择的BIC扩展。

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-05-01 Epub Date: 2019-12-01 DOI: 10.1177/0049124119882459

J Mulder, A E Raftery

引用次数: 10

Meta-Analysis in Sociological Research: Power and Heterogeneity. 社会学研究中的元分析:权力与异质性。

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-05-01 Epub Date: 2019-11-20 DOI: 10.1177/0049124119882479

Guangyu Tong, Guang Guo

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引用次数: 10

Why Measurement Invariance is Important in Comparative Research. A Response to Welzel et al. (2021) 为什么测量不变性在比较研究中很重要。对Welzel等人的回应（2021）

IF 6.3 2区社会学

Sociological Methods & Research Pub Date : 2022-04-21 DOI: 10.1177/00491241221091755

B. Meuleman, Tomasz Żółtak, A. Pokropek, E. Davidov, B. Muthén, Daniel L. Oberski, J. Billiet, Peter Schmidt

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引用次数: 7