William M Mason
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William M Mason |
| GIVEN NAMES | William M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mason |
| SIGNATURE | MASON W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 567 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Statistical Analysis: Multilevel Methods
Prenatal Sex-Selective Abortion and High Sex Ratio at Birth in the Rural Henan Province
Based on data from a snowball sampling survey conducted in rural Henan in 2001, we analyze the prevalence, patterns, and risk factors of prenatal sex selection and estimate its impact on sex ratio at birth. Our results indicate that prenatal sex selection is widely known and practiced in rural Henan; ex ante fetal sex and family sibset composition are the dominant predictors of abortion, regardless of maternal heterogeneity; and sex-selective abo…
An evaluation of the one percent clustered sample of the 1990 Census of China
We describe and evaluate a one percent clustered sample of the 1990 Census of China, the largest publicly-available micro sample of any Chinese census, using direct inspection as well as comparisons with published data drawn from the complete enumerati
Social and Behavioral Determinants of Self‐Reported STD Among Adolescents
Multiple social and behavioral factors influence lifetime history of STD. Age at first intercourse and STD history affect subsequent STD acquisition. Self-reports of STD acquisition in probability samples of the general population are useful
Social and Behavioral Determinants of Self-Reported STD Among Adolescents
CONTEXT: Adolescents have among the highest sexually transmitted disease (STD) rates. Rich data are now available to characterize the social and behavioral factors that affect adolescent STD risk. METHODS: Data from Wave 1 (1995) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) are used to estimate school, neighborhood, family and individual level effects on acquiring an STD. Data from Waves 1 and 2 (1996) of Add Health are al…
Recent trends in infant mortality in China
Modest Fortunes: Mining in Northern Baja California
Journal Article Modest Fortunes: Mining in Northern Baja California Get access Modest Fortunes: Mining in Northern Baja California. By Chaput Donald Mason William M. Zárate David Loperena Donald. (Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1992. 245 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00.) Robert L. Spude Robert L. Spude National Park Service, Denver Search for other works by this author on: …
Freedman is Right as Far as He Goes, but There is More, and It's Worse. Statisticians Could Help
Reply to O'Brien and Gwartney-Gibbs
This commentary replies to a critique by OBrien and Gartney-Gibbs of the authors analysis design in testing Easterlins hypothesis about the impact of cohort size affecting members of these cohorts throughout their lives. The critique reversed the authors conclusion in 1 aspect by finding non-trivial additive effect on political alienation by cohort size as evidenced by a standardized coefficient of .283 and a significance level of 0.18. The diffe…
Political Alienation, Cohort Size, and the Easterlin Hypothesis
Easterlin argues that his cohort crowding explanation of temporal variability in fertility trends applies to divorce, suicide, crime, and political alienation. Using two commonly employed survey items held to measure political alienation, we show that Easterlin's argument does not account for temporal variability in alienation between 1952 and 1980 in the United States. In addition, we find that a period basis, as distinguished from an age, cohor…
The multilevel dependence of contraceptive use on socioeconomic development and family planning program strength
Using World Fertility Survey data for 15 developing countries, we estimate an equation in which the dependent variable—whether the respondent has ever used an efficient contraceptive method—depends on the respondent’s education and location of childhood residence. All of the coefficients of this equation, including the intercept, vary over countries. Analysis based on new methodology shows that the intercept and education effects vary as a functi…
Cohort Analysis in Social Research: Beyond the Identification Problem
The Hierarchical Logistic Regression Model for Multilevel Analysis
A hierarchical logistic regression model is proposed for studying data with group structure and a binary response variable. The group structure is defined by the presence of micro observations embedded within contexts (macro observations), and the specification is at both of these levels. At the first (micro) level, the usual logistic regression model is defined for each context. The same regressors are used in each context, but the micro regress…
On the Dimensions of Political Alienation in America
The research reported here summarizes Population Studies Center Research Report 81-1 1. This research was supported by National Science Foundation grant SOC 78-17407. The result represents truly joint work in which all three authors made complementary contributions. We thank Betty Henry, Marie Klatt, Carol Crawford, and Madelon Weber for text processing, Jonathan Sell for computer programming, Joan Kahn, Cedric Herring, and Rita Mahard for resear…
Multilevel Effects of Socioeconomic Development and Family Planning Programs on Children Ever Born
This article describes an approach to an explanation of fertility that is sensitive to the dependence of the behavior of individuals or couples on social context and sets forth hypotheses about micro and macro determinants of children ever born (CEB). Data from 15 World Fertility Survey countries are used in a multilevel test of these hypotheses. The findings are that per capita GNP and family planning program effort affect not only country-speci…
Contextual Analysis through the Multilevel Linear Model
A general linear multilevel model and its estimation are described and illustrated empirically. The specification of a multilevel linear model within the covariance component framework was rendered. This model is appropriate for a wide range of applications in contextual analysis because it allows for macro as well as micro errors. Then an estimation procedure the restricted maximum likelihood/Bayes (REML/Bayes) was proposed and described for thi…
Estimable Functions of Age, Period, and Cohort Effects: More Chimeras of the Age-Period-Cohort Accounting Framework: Comment on Rodgers
Children's Reports of Parental Socioeconomic Status: A Multiple Group Measurement Model
An important class of applications of measurement error or constrained factor analytic models consists of comparing models for several populations. In such cases it is appropriate to make explicit statistical tests of model similarity across groups and to constrain some model parameters to be equal across groups using a priori substantive information. This article discusses a statistical model devel oped by Jöreskog for these purposes. The model …
Identification and Estimation of Age-Period-Cohort Models in the Analysis of Discrete Archival Data
We formulate an age-period-cohort specification for discrete data.When ages and periods are evenly and equally spaced there is an identification problem .We explain the problem.Sampling models are indicated and the minimal sufficient statistics are given.The iterative proportional fitting and Newton-Raphson methods for maximum likelihood estimation are described for age-period-cohort specifications.Various formulations of discrete response variab…
Reply to Guest
Reply to Glenn
Political Alienation in America, 1952-1968
Some Methodological Issues in Cohort Analysis of Archival Data
Walton, John 1966a Substance and artifact: the current status of research on community power structure. American Journal of Sociology 71 (January) :430-8. 1966b Discipline, method and community power: a note on the sociology of knowledge. American Sociological Review 31 (October): 684-99. 1967 The vertical axis of community organization and the structure of power. Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 48 (December) :353-68. Wolfinger, Raymond E. …
On the Accuracy of Children's Reports of Family Social Status
A systematic comparison is presented of the reports by school-age boys of their parents' educational level and their fathers' occupations with the reports of these same characteristics by the parents. Both black and white boys in the sixth, ninth, and twelfth grades are included. We find little general evidence of serious loss due to nonresponse, although the loss tends to be somewhat larger among blacks at all grade levels. Our regression and co…
The Impact of Endorsements on Voting
Newspaper endorsements played an important and measurable role in determining the outcome of the 1964 Illinois at-large election for state representatives. In this election, it was possible to vote for 177 candidates. To help the electorate cope with this major voting task, newspapers throughout Illinois provided information generally not available elsewhere, as well as recommendations which could be used compatibly with party loyalties. Localism…
Some Methodological Issues in Cohort Analysis of Archival Data
Walton, John 1966a Substance and artifact: the current status of research on community power structure. American Journal of Sociology 71 (January) :430-8. 1966b Discipline, method and community power: a note on the sociology of knowledge. American Sociological Review 31 (October): 684-99. 1967 The vertical axis of community organization and the structure of power. Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 48 (December) :353-68. Wolfinger, Raymond E. …
Education, Income, and Ability
Identification and Estimation of Age-Period-Cohort Models in the Analysis of Discrete Archival Data
We formulate an age-period-cohort specification for discrete data.When ages and periods are evenly and equally spaced there is an identification problem .We explain the problem.Sampling models are indicated and the minimal sufficient statistics are given.The iterative proportional fitting and Newton-Raphson methods for maximum likelihood estimation are described for age-period-cohort specifications.Various formulations of discrete response variab…
Political Alienation in America, 1952-1968
Multilevel Effects of Socioeconomic Development and Family Planning Programs on Children Ever Born
This article describes an approach to an explanation of fertility that is sensitive to the dependence of the behavior of individuals or couples on social context and sets forth hypotheses about micro and macro determinants of children ever born (CEB). Data from 15 World Fertility Survey countries are used in a multilevel test of these hypotheses. The findings are that per capita GNP and family planning program effort affect not only country-speci…
Estimable Functions of Age, Period, and Cohort Effects: More Chimeras of the Age-Period-Cohort Accounting Framework: Comment on Rodgers
Political Alienation, Cohort Size, and the Easterlin Hypothesis
Easterlin argues that his cohort crowding explanation of temporal variability in fertility trends applies to divorce, suicide, crime, and political alienation. Using two commonly employed survey items held to measure political alienation, we show that Easterlin's argument does not account for temporal variability in alienation between 1952 and 1980 in the United States. In addition, we find that a period basis, as distinguished from an age, cohor…
Contextual Analysis through the Multilevel Linear Model
A general linear multilevel model and its estimation are described and illustrated empirically. The specification of a multilevel linear model within the covariance component framework was rendered. This model is appropriate for a wide range of applications in contextual analysis because it allows for macro as well as micro errors. Then an estimation procedure the restricted maximum likelihood/Bayes (REML/Bayes) was proposed and described for thi…
Social and Behavioral Determinants of Self‐Reported STD Among Adolescents
Multiple social and behavioral factors influence lifetime history of STD. Age at first intercourse and STD history affect subsequent STD acquisition. Self-reports of STD acquisition in probability samples of the general population are useful
The multilevel dependence of contraceptive use on socioeconomic development and family planning program strength
Using World Fertility Survey data for 15 developing countries, we estimate an equation in which the dependent variable—whether the respondent has ever used an efficient contraceptive method—depends on the respondent’s education and location of childhood residence. All of the coefficients of this equation, including the intercept, vary over countries. Analysis based on new methodology shows that the intercept and education effects vary as a functi…
Reply to Glenn
Children's Reports of Parental Socioeconomic Status: A Multiple Group Measurement Model
An important class of applications of measurement error or constrained factor analytic models consists of comparing models for several populations. In such cases it is appropriate to make explicit statistical tests of model similarity across groups and to constrain some model parameters to be equal across groups using a priori substantive information. This article discusses a statistical model devel oped by Jöreskog for these purposes. The model …
On the Dimensions of Political Alienation in America
The research reported here summarizes Population Studies Center Research Report 81-1 1. This research was supported by National Science Foundation grant SOC 78-17407. The result represents truly joint work in which all three authors made complementary contributions. We thank Betty Henry, Marie Klatt, Carol Crawford, and Madelon Weber for text processing, Jonathan Sell for computer programming, Joan Kahn, Cedric Herring, and Rita Mahard for resear…
On the Accuracy of Children's Reports of Family Social Status
A systematic comparison is presented of the reports by school-age boys of their parents' educational level and their fathers' occupations with the reports of these same characteristics by the parents. Both black and white boys in the sixth, ninth, and twelfth grades are included. We find little general evidence of serious loss due to nonresponse, although the loss tends to be somewhat larger among blacks at all grade levels. Our regression and co…
Prenatal Sex-Selective Abortion and High Sex Ratio at Birth in the Rural Henan Province
Based on data from a snowball sampling survey conducted in rural Henan in 2001, we analyze the prevalence, patterns, and risk factors of prenatal sex selection and estimate its impact on sex ratio at birth. Our results indicate that prenatal sex selection is widely known and practiced in rural Henan; ex ante fetal sex and family sibset composition are the dominant predictors of abortion, regardless of maternal heterogeneity; and sex-selective abo…
Freedman is Right as Far as He Goes, but There is More, and It's Worse. Statisticians Could Help
The Impact of Endorsements on Voting
Newspaper endorsements played an important and measurable role in determining the outcome of the 1964 Illinois at-large election for state representatives. In this election, it was possible to vote for 177 candidates. To help the electorate cope with this major voting task, newspapers throughout Illinois provided information generally not available elsewhere, as well as recommendations which could be used compatibly with party loyalties. Localism…
Social and Behavioral Determinants of Self-Reported STD Among Adolescents
CONTEXT: Adolescents have among the highest sexually transmitted disease (STD) rates. Rich data are now available to characterize the social and behavioral factors that affect adolescent STD risk. METHODS: Data from Wave 1 (1995) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) are used to estimate school, neighborhood, family and individual level effects on acquiring an STD. Data from Waves 1 and 2 (1996) of Add Health are al…
Reply to O'Brien and Gwartney-Gibbs
This commentary replies to a critique by OBrien and Gartney-Gibbs of the authors analysis design in testing Easterlins hypothesis about the impact of cohort size affecting members of these cohorts throughout their lives. The critique reversed the authors conclusion in 1 aspect by finding non-trivial additive effect on political alienation by cohort size as evidenced by a standardized coefficient of .283 and a significance level of 0.18. The diffe…
Stages of Social Research: Contemporary Perspectives
Education, Income, and Ability
Some Methodological Issues in Cohort Analysis of Archival Data
Walton, John 1966a Substance and artifact: the current status of research on community power structure. American Journal of Sociology 71 (January) :430-8. 1966b Discipline, method and community power: a note on the sociology of knowledge. American Sociological Review 31 (October): 684-99. 1967 The vertical axis of community organization and the structure of power. Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 48 (December) :353-68. Wolfinger, Raymond E. …
On the Accuracy of Children's Reports of Family Social Status
A systematic comparison is presented of the reports by school-age boys of their parents' educational level and their fathers' occupations with the reports of these same characteristics by the parents. Both black and white boys in the sixth, ninth, and twelfth grades are included. We find little general evidence of serious loss due to nonresponse, although the loss tends to be somewhat larger among blacks at all grade levels. Our regression and co…
The Impact of Endorsements on Voting
Newspaper endorsements played an important and measurable role in determining the outcome of the 1964 Illinois at-large election for state representatives. In this election, it was possible to vote for 177 candidates. To help the electorate cope with this major voting task, newspapers throughout Illinois provided information generally not available elsewhere, as well as recommendations which could be used compatibly with party loyalties. Localism…
Political Alienation in America, 1952-1968
Reply to Guest
Reply to Glenn
Identification and Estimation of Age-Period-Cohort Models in the Analysis of Discrete Archival Data
We formulate an age-period-cohort specification for discrete data.When ages and periods are evenly and equally spaced there is an identification problem .We explain the problem.Sampling models are indicated and the minimal sufficient statistics are given.The iterative proportional fitting and Newton-Raphson methods for maximum likelihood estimation are described for age-period-cohort specifications.Various formulations of discrete response variab…
Children's Reports of Parental Socioeconomic Status: A Multiple Group Measurement Model
An important class of applications of measurement error or constrained factor analytic models consists of comparing models for several populations. In such cases it is appropriate to make explicit statistical tests of model similarity across groups and to constrain some model parameters to be equal across groups using a priori substantive information. This article discusses a statistical model devel oped by Jöreskog for these purposes. The model …
Estimable Functions of Age, Period, and Cohort Effects: More Chimeras of the Age-Period-Cohort Accounting Framework: Comment on Rodgers
Contextual Analysis through the Multilevel Linear Model
A general linear multilevel model and its estimation are described and illustrated empirically. The specification of a multilevel linear model within the covariance component framework was rendered. This model is appropriate for a wide range of applications in contextual analysis because it allows for macro as well as micro errors. Then an estimation procedure the restricted maximum likelihood/Bayes (REML/Bayes) was proposed and described for thi…
Cohort Analysis in Social Research: Beyond the Identification Problem
The Hierarchical Logistic Regression Model for Multilevel Analysis
A hierarchical logistic regression model is proposed for studying data with group structure and a binary response variable. The group structure is defined by the presence of micro observations embedded within contexts (macro observations), and the specification is at both of these levels. At the first (micro) level, the usual logistic regression model is defined for each context. The same regressors are used in each context, but the micro regress…
On the Dimensions of Political Alienation in America
The research reported here summarizes Population Studies Center Research Report 81-1 1. This research was supported by National Science Foundation grant SOC 78-17407. The result represents truly joint work in which all three authors made complementary contributions. We thank Betty Henry, Marie Klatt, Carol Crawford, and Madelon Weber for text processing, Jonathan Sell for computer programming, Joan Kahn, Cedric Herring, and Rita Mahard for resear…
Multilevel Effects of Socioeconomic Development and Family Planning Programs on Children Ever Born
This article describes an approach to an explanation of fertility that is sensitive to the dependence of the behavior of individuals or couples on social context and sets forth hypotheses about micro and macro determinants of children ever born (CEB). Data from 15 World Fertility Survey countries are used in a multilevel test of these hypotheses. The findings are that per capita GNP and family planning program effort affect not only country-speci…
The multilevel dependence of contraceptive use on socioeconomic development and family planning program strength
Using World Fertility Survey data for 15 developing countries, we estimate an equation in which the dependent variable—whether the respondent has ever used an efficient contraceptive method—depends on the respondent’s education and location of childhood residence. All of the coefficients of this equation, including the intercept, vary over countries. Analysis based on new methodology shows that the intercept and education effects vary as a functi…
Political Alienation, Cohort Size, and the Easterlin Hypothesis
Easterlin argues that his cohort crowding explanation of temporal variability in fertility trends applies to divorce, suicide, crime, and political alienation. Using two commonly employed survey items held to measure political alienation, we show that Easterlin's argument does not account for temporal variability in alienation between 1952 and 1980 in the United States. In addition, we find that a period basis, as distinguished from an age, cohor…
Reply to O'Brien and Gwartney-Gibbs
This commentary replies to a critique by OBrien and Gartney-Gibbs of the authors analysis design in testing Easterlins hypothesis about the impact of cohort size affecting members of these cohorts throughout their lives. The critique reversed the authors conclusion in 1 aspect by finding non-trivial additive effect on political alienation by cohort size as evidenced by a standardized coefficient of .283 and a significance level of 0.18. The diffe…
Freedman is Right as Far as He Goes, but There is More, and It's Worse. Statisticians Could Help
Recent trends in infant mortality in China
Modest Fortunes: Mining in Northern Baja California
Journal Article Modest Fortunes: Mining in Northern Baja California Get access Modest Fortunes: Mining in Northern Baja California. By Chaput Donald Mason William M. Zárate David Loperena Donald. (Los Angeles: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 1992. 245 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00.) Robert L. Spude Robert L. Spude National Park Service, Denver Search for other works by this author on: …
Social and Behavioral Determinants of Self‐Reported STD Among Adolescents
Multiple social and behavioral factors influence lifetime history of STD. Age at first intercourse and STD history affect subsequent STD acquisition. Self-reports of STD acquisition in probability samples of the general population are useful
Social and Behavioral Determinants of Self-Reported STD Among Adolescents
CONTEXT: Adolescents have among the highest sexually transmitted disease (STD) rates. Rich data are now available to characterize the social and behavioral factors that affect adolescent STD risk. METHODS: Data from Wave 1 (1995) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) are used to estimate school, neighborhood, family and individual level effects on acquiring an STD. Data from Waves 1 and 2 (1996) of Add Health are al…
An evaluation of the one percent clustered sample of the 1990 Census of China
We describe and evaluate a one percent clustered sample of the 1990 Census of China, the largest publicly-available micro sample of any Chinese census, using direct inspection as well as comparisons with published data drawn from the complete enumerati
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