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A general framework for social science

Policy Sciences, 1972
It is possible to construct a basic framework that potentially accommodates the interactions of all biological, biosocial, cultural and situational determinants of behavior. While specific problems will require changes of detail, a single structure of interactions for all problems increases the additive possibilities of the field, and makes feasible ...
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Artificial societies and generative social science

Artificial Life and Robotics, 1997
What is anartificial society? What can such models offer the social sciences in particular? We address these general questions, drawing brief illustrations from the specific artificial society we call “Sugarscape.”
Joshua M. Epstein, Robert L. Axtell
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Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences

, 2015
Part I. General Topics: 1. The social sciences and spatial analysis 2. Defining neighbors via a spatial weights matrix 3. Spatial autocorrelation and statistical inference 4. Diagnosing spatial dependence 5.
David Darmofal
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Agent_Zero and generative social science

2015 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), 2015
Agent_Zero is a formal alternative to the rational actor model that has dominated social science since the 1940s. This software individual is the first to be endowed with distinct affective, deliberative, and social modules. Grounded in neuroscience, these internal facets interact to produce far-from-rational individual behavior.
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Social networks generate interest in computer science

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 2006
For forty years programming has been the foundation of introductory computer science. Despite exponential increases in computational power during this period, examples used in introductory courses have remained largely unchanged. The incredible growth in statistics courses at all levels, in contrast with the decline of students taking ...
Owen Astrachan, Casey Alt, Richard Lucic, Susan H. Rodger, Jeffrey M. Forbes   +4 more
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Data Mining for the Social Sciences

, 2015
PART 1. CONCEPTS 1. What Is Data Mining? 2. Contrasts with the Conventional Statistical Approach 3. Some General Strategies Used in Data Mining 4. Important Stages in a Data Mining Project PART 2. WORKED EXAMPLES 5. Preparing Training and Test Datasets 6.
P. Attewell, David B. Monaghan
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Dialectic as a General Method of Social Science: Varieties of Social Science Experience

1981
There can be little doubt that what we have come to call scientific method has undergone significant transformation and development in this century and the last. Nowhere has this been more apparent than in the social sciences. If the essence of method be identified with control, quantification, and measurement, then the ability of the social sciences ...
Richard O. Mason, Ian I. Mitroff
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Blog searching: The first general-purpose source of retrospective public opinion in the social sciences?

Online information review (Print), 2007
Purpose – This paper aims to demonstrate how blog searching can be used as a retrospective source of public opinion. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper a variety of blog searching techniques are described and illustrated ...
M. Thelwall
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Latent Class and Latent Transition Analysis: With Applications in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

, 2009
List of Figures. List of Tables. Acknowledgments. Acronyms. Part I Fundamentals. 1. General Introduction. 1.1 Overview. 1.2 Conceptual foundation and brief history of the latent class model. 1.3 Why select a categorical latent variable approach?
L. Collins, Stephanie T. Lanza
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Historical Generalization and Social Science Education

The Social Studies, 1975
(1975). Historical Generalization and Social Science Education. The Social Studies: Vol. 66, No. 5, pp. 214-217.
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