An introduction to empirical legal research /

Are courts more likely to suppress civil liberties in times of war? Does a judge's gender influence his or her decisions? Do independent judiciaries promote economic freedom? Answering such questions calls for empirical evidence, and arguments based on empirical research have become an everyday...

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Main Author: Epstein, Lee, 1958-
Other Authors: Martin, Andrew D., 1972-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press 2014
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Table of Contents:
  • Some preliminaries
  • Questions, theories, observable implications
  • Measurement
  • Collecting data
  • Coding data
  • Summarizing data
  • Statistical inference
  • Regression analysis: the basics
  • Multiple regression analysis and related methods
  • General principles for communicating and visualizing data and results
  • Strategies for presenting data and statistical results
  • Concluding results