How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias in Comparative Politics by Barbara Geddes
How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias in Comparative Politics

Barbara Geddes

How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get: Selection Bias in Comparative Politics

Barbara Geddes

20 pages first pub 1990 (editions) not a book user-added

nonfiction politics

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This article demonstrates how the selection of cases for study on the basis of outcomes on the dependent variable biases conclusions. It first lays out the logic of explanation and shows how it is violated when only cases that have achieved the ou...

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