A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem

Reconstructing Individual Behavior from Aggregate Data

Bibliographic Data

ID2959933
AuthorsJohn Fox (0000-0002-1196-8012), John P Fox, Gary King (0000-0002-5327-7631, Harvard University Press)
Year1999
Volume24
Issue1
Pages150
Publication date1999-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Canadian Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0318-6431 • E-ISSN: 1710-1123
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3341483
OpenAlexW4254954715
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited2

The program EI provides a method of inferring individual behavior from aggregate data.It implements the statistical procedures, diagnostics, and graphics from the book A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing Individual Behavior from Aggregate Data (King 1997).Ecological inference, as traditionally defined, is the process of using aggregate (i.e., "ecological") data to infer discrete individual-level relationships of interest when individuallevel data are not available.Ecological inferences are required in political science research when individual-level surveys are unavailable (e.g., local or comparative electoral politics), unreliable (racial politics), insufficient (political geography), or infeasible (political history).They are also required in numerous areas of major significance in public policy (e.g., for applying the Voting Rights Act) and other academic disciplines ranging from epidemiology and marketing to sociology and quantitative history

Aggregate data · Data science · Epistemology · Inference · Nanotechnology · Sociology · Statistics · Census and Population Estimation · Computer Science · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Mathematics · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence

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