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Methodological Artefacts, Data Manipulation and Fraud in Economics and Social Science

Themenheft 5+6/Bd. 231(2011) Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
BookPaperback
Ranking183593inWirtschaft
CHF126.00

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Frontmatter -- Inhalt / Contents -- Guest Editorial -- Abhandlungen / Original Papers -- The Production of Historical "Facts": How the Wrong Number of Participants in the Leipzig Monday Demonstration on October 9,1989 Became a Convention -- "True Believers" or Numerical Terrorism at the Nuclear Power Plant -- One-eyed Epidemiologie Dummies at Nuclear Power Plants -- Are Most Published Research Findings False? -- What Fuels Publication Bias? -- The Identification and Prevention of Publication Bias in the Social Sciences and Economics -- Benford's Law as an Instrument for Fraud Detection in Surveys Using the Data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) -- When Does the Second-Digit Benford's Law-Test Signal an Election Fraud? -- Difficulties Detecting Fraud? The Use of Benford's Law on Regression Tables -- Plagiarism in Student Papers: Prevalence Estimates Using Special Techniques for Sensitive Questions -- Pitfalls of International Comparative Research: Taking Acquiescence into Account -- Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews -- Backmatter
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ISBN/GTIN978-3-8282-0557-4
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publishing date01/01/2011
Pages208 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 165 mm, Height 235 mm, Thickness 12 mm
Weight345 g
Article no.13003633
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.18316693
Product groupWirtschaft
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Author

Dr. Andreas Diekmann ist Professor für Soziologie an der Universität Bern, Schweiz.