The uncertainty that researchers face in specifying their estimation
model threatens the validity of their inferences. In regression
analyses of observational data, the 'true model' remains unknown, and
researchers face a choice between plausible alternative
specifications. Robustness testing allows researchers to explore the
stability of their main estimates to plausible variations in model
specifications. This highly accessible book presents the logic of
robustness testing, provides an operational definition of robustness
that can be applied in all quantitative research, and introduces
readers to diverse types of robustness tests. Focusing on each
dimension of model uncertainty in separate chapters, the authors
provide a systematic overview of existing tests and develop many new
ones. Whether it be uncertainty about the population or sample,
measurement, the set of explanatory variables and their functional
form, causal or temporal heterogeneity, or effect dynamics or spatial
dependence, this book provides guidance and offers tests that
researchers from across the social sciences can employ in their own
research.
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ISBN
9781108245838
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Cambridge University Press
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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