Ecological inference and the ecological fallacy

Ecological inference and the ecological fallacy

Report Number
549
Authors
David A. Freedman
Citation
in Surveys on Solution Methods for Inverse Problems, Colton, D.,
Abstract

This paper reviews several methods for making ecological inferences, that is, inferring the behavior of individuals from aggregate data. Also considered is the ecological fallacy, which is the idea that relationships observed for groups necessarily hold for individuals.

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