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    STUDIA OECONOMICA - Issue no. 2 / 2003  
         
  Article:   THE NEED FOR ECOLOGICAL INFERENCE.

Authors:  TEODORA GHEORGHIU.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  The Need for Ecological Inference. The ecological inference problem has been among the longest standing, unsolved problems in quantitative social science. It was originally raised over 75 years ago as the first statistical problem in the nascent discipline of political science. Ecological inference, as traditionally defined, is the process of using aggregate (i.e., “ecological”) data to infer discrete individual-level relationships of interest when individual-level data are not available. The reason I describe this list is to bring into more light a general sense of the diversity of questions that have been addressed by inadequate methods of ecological inference.  
         
     
         
         
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