this is well travelled territory. see:
@Article{western:apsr,
author = {Western, Bruce and Simon Jackman},
title = {Bayesian Inference for Comparative Research},
journal = apsr,
volume = 88,
year = 1994,
pages = {412--23}
}
@Article{berk95:_statis_infer_for_appar_popul,
author = {Berk, Richard A. and Bruce Western and Robert
E.~Weiss},
title = {Statistical Inference for Apparent Populations},
journal = {Sociological Methodology},
year = 1995,
volume = 25,
pages = {421-458}
}
-- Simon Jackman
On Sep 27, 2005, at 7:01 AM, Will H. Moore wrote:
> I imagine several people received the query below. It seems to me to
> be an interesting question for discussion, so I offer it for your
> consideration.
>
> - Will
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>
>> From: "TALEBANM" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: September 27, 2005 4:02:29 AM EDT
>> To: "Will H. Moore" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: a question
>>
>> Dear professor
>> I have a question of you and if it is possible for you to answer
>> me, I
>> will be so thankful .
>> Research on cross-national determinants of a phenomena limits the
>> sample to countries with data availability and typically do not have
>> randomly drawn samples, though unavoidable. if the primary assumption
>> of all significance tests is probability or randomly sampling why
>> cross-national's scholarlies apply these tests?
>>
>> I am waiting for your response.
>> With kind regards.
>>
>> Mohammadreza Taleban
>>
>> Dept. of sociology
>> Faculty of Humanities
>> Tarbiat Modarres University
>> Tehran I. R. IRAN
>>
>
> --
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