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Isolating Spatial Autocorrelation, Aggregation Bias, and Distributional Violations in Ecological Inference: Comment on Anselin and Cho

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2017

Gary King*
Affiliation:
Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, 34 Kirkland Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. e-mail: king@harvard.edu

Extract

Few better ways of checking and improving statistical methods exist than having other researchers go over your results, and so I especially appreciate the efforts in Anselin and Cho (2002), hereinafter AC. In this note, I make two main points.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association 2002 

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