An Historical Dictionary of German Figurative Usage, Fascicle 58

Keith Spalding is Professor Emeritus of German at the University College of North Wales, Bangor.

Consultants. >Contributors. >Information for Authors. >In this Volume. > Part I: Formal Analysis of Qualitative Data: > A Symposium: >1. The Niche Hiker's Guide to Population Ecology: A Logical Reconstruction of Organization Ecology's Niche Theory: Gabor Peli (University of Groningen). >2. Sequence Comparison via Alignment and Gibbs Sampling: A Formal Analysis of the Emergence of the Modern Sociological Article: Andrew Abbott and Emily Barman (University of Chicago). >3. A Generic Semantic Grammar for Quantitative Text Analysis: Applications to East and West Berlin Radio News Content from 1979: Carl W. Roberts (Iowa State University). >Discussion: Comment: The Importance of Order: Kathleen M. Carley (Carnegie-Mellon University). >Comment: On Ambiguity and Rhetoric in (Social) Science: Roberto Franzosi (University of Oxford). >Comment: On Logical Formalization of Theories from Organizational Ecology: Michael T. Hannan (Stanford University). >Comment: Evaluating Qualitative Methodologies: Edgar Kiser (University of Washington). >Rejoinders: Reply: Intuition and the Formal Approaches: Gabor Peli (University of Groningen). >Reply to Comments: Andrew Abbot and Emily Barman (University of Chicago). >Reply: The Curse of Chauvin: Carl W. Roberts (Iowa State University). > Part II: Socioeconomic Indicies: > >4. Socioeconomic Indexes for Occupations: A Review, Update, and Critique: Robert M. Hauser University of Wisconsin, Madison) and John Robert Warren. >5. A Dual-Source Indicator of Consumer Confidence: Gordon G. Betchel (University of Florida). > Part III: Estimating Treatment Effects: > >6. Matching with Multiple Controls to Estimate Treatment Effects in Observational Studies: Herbert L. Smith (University of Pennsylvania). > Part IV: Event History Analysis: > >7. The Neighbourhood History Calendar: A Data Collection Method Designed for Dynamic Multilevel Modelling: William G. Axinn, Jennifer S. Barber (both Pennsylvania State University) and Dirgha J. Ghimire (Tribhuvan University). >8. Adjusting for Attrition in Event History Analysis: Daniel H. Hill (University of Michigan). >9. Dynamic Discrete-time Duration Models: Estimation via Markov Chain Monte Carlo: Ludwig Fahrmeir and Leonhard Knorr-Held (Universitat Munchen). > Part V: Longitudinal and Multilevel Modelling: > >10. Latent Variable Modelling of Longitudinal and Multilevel Data: Bengt Muthen (University of California, Los Angeles). >Name Index. >Subject Index.