One of the innovations in social research made by Paul F. Lazarsfeld was the development
and application of panel surveys. In this design a sample of individuals is interviewed at …

Abstract THE FOCUS OF THIS PAPER IS ANALYSIS, AS OPPOSED TO PROBLEMS OF
PANEL SAMPLING OR DESIGN. THE ANALYSIS OF DISCRETE VARIABLES, EITHER …

Abstract One motivation for using panel data is to determine the relative effects of two
variables which are known to be related. This article reviews the four techniques which have …

With a few exceptions (see Tuma, 1976; Littman and Mode, 1977; Pickens and Soyka,
1980), most attempts to model individual choice behavior with Markov and related models …

Singer and Spilerman (1974, 1976) have significantly extended our knowledge of modeling
social processes by time referenced Markov models that are probabilistic multistate models …

Of all the fields of political science where quantitative methods have been developed over
the past generation, probably the one where scholarly understanding has been most …

HE TITLE of this paper was the title of a book published in 1928, Tand I am speaking as its
author. In that book I sought to replace a number of general descriptive statements …

Time series analysis has undergone radical changes in recent years. The objectives of time
series analysis remain the same, but the techniques have changed. Box and Jenkins (1968 …

This paper utilizes panel data collected by the Survey Research Center to assess the fit of
data on party identification to three alternative models--all of which are Markovian in nature …

It is the belief” of this writer that meas urement (from the simple st procedure of as signing
numbers to mem-bers of qualitatively different classes of people or beha-viors to complex …