Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology

1967 - 2025

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Volume 20, issue 4, 1986

Additional cautionary notes about the Pearson's correlation coefficient pp. 313-325

Zvi Maimon, Adi Raveh and Gur Mosheiov

Philosophical foundations of sociological measurement: a note on the three level model pp. 327-337

Kenneth Bailey

The logic of means-end analysis pp. 339-356

Jan-Erik Lane

Methods in applied social research: special characteristics and quality standards pp. 357-370

Jan Dijk

The impact of scale length on reliability and validity pp. 371-376

Richard Niemi, Edward Carmines and John McIver

From father to son and from father to daughter: educational mobility in Hungary and the Netherlands for the birth cohorts from 1925 to 1955 pp. 377-403

Jules Peschar, Els Vergert and Roel Popping

Does democracy inevitably imply hierarchy? pp. 405-417

William Collins

Randomized decision rules in voting games: a model for strict proportional power pp. 419-429

Sven Berg and Manfred Holler

Two concepts of monotonicity in two-person bargaining theory pp. 431-435

Manfred Holler

Measures of similarity between distributions pp. 437-441

Jan Vegelius, Svante Janson and Folke Johansson

Volume 20, issue 2, 1986

Effects of compound messages on global characteristics of Galileo spaces pp. 133-145

Joseph Woelfel, Barbara Newton, Richard Holmes, D. Lawrence Kincaid and Jong-Young Lee

The conditional probability and the linear flow graph approaches to analyzing probabilistic causal systems pp. 147-156

Frederick Ellett and David Ericson

Research in schools and the case for methodological integration pp. 157-168

Derek Blease and Alan Bryman

Optimal variable weighting for ultrametric and additive tree clustering pp. 169-180

Geert Soete

Group differences: the issue of decomposition pp. 181-190

Vered Kraus

The myths of the Chicago School pp. 191-217

Lee Harvey

Accounting for omitted variables in a discrete time panel data model of residential mobility pp. 219-233

Richard Davies and Andrew Pickles

An exploratory procedure for identifying influential subgroups in linear regression pp. 235-248

Lalit Aggarwal

On evaluating the equivalency of alternative MDS representations pp. 249-256

James Lingoes and Ingwer Borg

Voting power in municipal annexation elections pp. 257-260

Fred Shelley

A note on measuring political participation in comparative research pp. 261-272

Jan Deth

Correlational models of content: reply to Muskens pp. 273-275

Robert Weber

Effects of research experience of respondents pp. 277-284

Anton Nederhof

Patterns and dynamics of population heterogeneity in mixtures models pp. 285-291

Yigal Gerchak and Peter Kubat

On the estimation of the number of undetected misprints and optimal release rules in proofreading pp. 293-296

Peter Kubat

A note regarding the problem of perfect multicollinearity pp. 297-306

Alexis Lazaridis

Volume 20, issue 1, 1986

On the construction of effectiveness of interaction tables pp. 3-18

Joseph Neggers and Dennis Runcie

Reinterpreting polynomial regression pp. 19-26

Evans Curry, Alden Roberts and Derald Walling

Towards a typology of information to aid reliability of response in social surveys pp. 27-52

Peter Cuttance

Some properties of Rho-b statistics pp. 53-74

Robert Smith

Epistemological reasons for preferring component analysis to factor analysis pp. 75-84

Giuseppe Gangemi

Weighted scoring rules, the impartial culture condition, and homogeneity pp. 85-107

William Gehrlein

Some further aspects of ecological regression analysis pp. 109-125

Jan-Bernd Lohmöller and Jürgen Falter

Book reviews pp. 127-131

David Hitchin, Alan Brier, Dougal Hutchison and W. Miller

Volume 19, issue 4, 1985

Spearman's ρ b, r, and the path analysis of contingency tables pp. 313-336

Robert Smith

Models for the comparative analysis of vertical mobility pp. 337-352

Richard Breen

Appropriate criteria of trustworthiness and goodness for qualitative research on education organizations pp. 353-373

Catherine Marshall

Problems of short scales: the case of the Aston studies pp. 375-382

Alan Bryman and A. Pettitt

Traces of agreement: Extensions of the D2-index pp. 383-388

Roel Popping

Abstracts pp. 389-391

Robert Smith, Richard Breen, Catherine Marshall, Alan Bryman, A. Pettitt and Roel Popping

Volume 19, issue 3, 1985

Categorical data analysis and descriptive value pp. 227-243

Marshall Pomer

Measures of system properties and ratio correlation pp. 245-263

William Feinberg and Joseph Trotta

The relationship between ordinal measures and their underlying values: Why all the disagreement? pp. 265-277

Robert O'Brien

Social norms and learning theories pp. 279-291

Martti Kuokkanen

A survey on suicide: Using a mail survey to study a highly threatening topic pp. 293-302

Anton Nederhof

Book reviews pp. 303-304

A. Coxon, Ian Budge, Russell Ecob and T. Nossiter

Abstracts pp. 309-311

Marshall Pomer, William Feinberg, Joseph Trotta, Robert O'Brein, Martti Kuokkanen and A. Nederhof

Volume 19, issue 2, 1985

Causal modeling and dichotomous variables pp. 131-144

Frederick Ellett and David Ericson

Evolutionary production systems pp. 145-153

Karl-Heinz Brodbeck and R. Matzka

A major shortcoming of Professor Holmes' comparative methodology: The question of falsifiability pp. 155-165

B. Singh

Social mobility measures for cross-national comparisons pp. 167-182

Adrian Raftery

Translatable statistics and verbal hypotheses pp. 183-209

Michael Smithson

A cluster-analytic isolation criterion: An application to U.S. Migration regions pp. 211-221

Paul Slater

Abstracts pp. 223-226

Frederick Ellett, David Ericson, K. Brodbeck, R. Matzka, B. Singh, Adrian Raftery, Michael Smithson and Paul Slater

Volume 19, issue 1, 1985

The components of social control pp. 1-51

Raimo Tuomela

Nonlinear principal components pp. 53-69

Victor Yohai, Werner Ackermann and Cristina Haigh

On modelling aggregation impact in spatially distributed data pp. 71-82

Daniel Fesenmaier

Feminist methodology—Fact or fiction? pp. 83-97

Sue Clegg

Mathematical analysis of content pp. 99-103

George Muskens

Measuring ideological frames of reference pp. 105-118

Harry Berg and Cees Veer

Measuring the amount of variation accounted for by log-linear (logit) models pp. 119-123

Howard Garb

Abstracts pp. 125-127

Raimo Tuomela, Victor Yohai, Werner Ackermann, Christina Haigh, Daniel Fesenmaier, Sue Clegg, Harry Berg, Cees Veer and Howard Garb