Iff the Assumption Fits…: A Comment on the King Ecological Inference Solution

1 January 1998

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Political Analysis

Vol. 7 (1) , 143-163
https://doi.org/10.1093/pan/7.1.143

Abstract

I examine a recently proposed solution to the ecological inference problem (King 1997). It is asserted that the proposed model is able to reconstruct individual-level behavior from aggregate data. I discuss in detail both the benefits and limitations of this model. The assumptions of the basic model are often inappropriate for instances of aggregate data. The extended version of the model is able to correct for some of these limitations. However, it is difficult in most cases to apply the extended model properly.

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