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https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/30847| Title: | Selection Bias and Social Science History | Contributor(s): | Inwood, Kris (author); Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish (author) |
Publication Date: | 2020 | Early Online Version: | 2020-08-05 | DOI: | 10.1017/ssh.2020.18 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/30847 | Abstract: | Historians and social scientists routinely, and inevitably, rely on sources that are unrepresentative of the past. The articles in this special issue of the journal illustrate the widespread prevalence of selection bias in historical sources, and the ways in which historians negotiate this challenge to reach useful conclusions from valuable, if imperfect sources. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Social Science History, 44(3), p. 411-416 | Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1527-8034 0145-5532 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 380103 Economic history 430306 Digital history |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 280113 Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology | HERDC Category Description: | C2 Non-Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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| Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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