如果上过研究方法课程的，都知道“Ecological Inference”一词，这是研究设计的难点之一。
Ecological Inference: New Methodological Strategies
Gary King (Editor), Ori Rosen (Editor), Martin A. Tanner
432 pages
Cambridge University Press (September 13, 2004)
部分目录
INTRODUCTION 1
Information in Ecological Inference: An Introduction 1
Gary King, Ori Rosen, and Martin A. Tanner
PART ONE 13
1 Prior and Likelihood Choices in the Analysis of Ecological Data 13
JonathanWakefield
2 The Information in Aggregate Data 51
David G. Steel, Eric J. Beh, and Ray L. Chambers
3 Using Ecological Inference for Contextual Research 69
D. Stephen Voss
PART TWO 97
4 Extending King’s Ecological InferenceModel toMultiple Elections Using
Markov ChainMonte Carlo 97
Jeffrey B. Lewis
5 Ecological Regression and Ecological Inference 123
Bernard Grofman and Samuel Merrill
6 Using Prior Information to Aid Ecological Inference: A Bayesian Approach 144
J. Kevin Corder and ChristinaWolbrecht
7 An Information Theoretic Approach to Ecological Estimation and Inference 162
George G. Judge, Douglas J. Miller, andWendy K. Tam Cho
8 Ecological Panel Inference from Repeated Cross Sections 188
Ben Pelzer, Rob Eisinga, and Philip Hans Franses
PART THREE 207
9 Ecological Inference in the Presence of Temporal Dependence 207
Kevin M. Quinn
10 A Spatial View of the Ecological Inference Problem 233