Regressing Domesday Book

Tax assessments of Domesday England

Bibliographic Data

ID3378595
AuthorsJ D Hamshere (University of Manchester, corresponding author)
Year1987
Volume40
Issue2
Pages247
Publication date1987-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Economic History Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-0117 • E-ISSN: 1468-0289
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2596690
OpenAlexW4236598784
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited5

Despite three centuries of study, the statistics of Domesday Book have only recently begun to be subjected to rigorous statistical analysis. In the past decade a handful of studies' have employed regression techniques to search for relationships within Domesday Book statistics and the recent article by McDonald and Snooks2 provides a welcome contribution to this small but growing band of pioneer studies. The complex construction of Domesday Book and the variable size of the manorial units within which the statistics are set does, however, impose many limitations upon the use of statistical techniques. Therefore, conclusions stemming from such statistical analyses have to be treated with great caution, particularly those derived from multipleregression techniques. The statistics of Domesday Book are highly intercorrelated, as the following example of correlation coefficients (R) drawn from three counties demonstrates

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