Contextual Analysis

Contextual analysis the study of the role of the group context on actions and attitudes of individuals is a useful technique in the study of education neighborhoods census tracts election districts and the family. However the effective use of contextual analysis has involved overcoming a number of issues such as group boundaries the mobility of the individuals within a group overlapping groups missing individual data and the choice of statistical models. Contextual Analysis offers researchers a guide for selecting the best model to use. Written in a straightforward style the book explores such topics as contextual analysis with absolute effects with relative effects and the choice between regression coefficients as fixed parameters or as random variables.