In both political behavior research and voting rights litigation, turnout and vote choice for
different racial groups are often inferred using aggregate election results and racial …

The demand for mental health services has been growing stronger over the last couple of
decades. This indicates the need to study and assess the access to these mental health …

How did the first female voters cast their ballots? For almost 100 years, answers to this
question have eluded scholars. Counting Women's Ballots employs new data and novel …

Cancer progression and monotonic accumulation models were developed to discover
dependencies in the irreversible acquisition of binary traits from cross-sectional data. They …

Legislative redistricting alters the political and electoral context for some voters but not
others, thus offering a potentially promising research design to study many questions of …

Questions about racial or ethnic group identity feature centrally in many social science
theories, but detailed data on ethnic composition are often difficult to obtain, out of date, or …

The analysis of voter transitions is an important area of electoral studies. A main strategy is
to use aggregate data provided by the offices of statistics regarding districts, precincts …

Ecological inference refers to the study of individuals using aggregate data and it is used in
an impressive number of studies; it is well known, however, that the study of individuals …

The estimation of RxC ecological inference contingency tables from aggregate data is one of
the most salient and challenging problems in the field of quantitative social sciences, with …

Despite its shortcomings, cross-level or ecological inference remains a necessary part of
some areas of quantitative inference, including in United States voting rights litigation …