A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem¶
King, G. (1997). A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing Individual Behavior from Aggregate Data. Princeton University Press.
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- Ecological Inference Problem
- Gary King formalised the problem and proposed a model-based solution (King, 1997) that imposes a distributional assumption on how individual-level proportions vary across precincts — specifically, that they follow a truncated bivariate normal distribution
This sourceKing's model-based solution, which assumes precinct-level proportions follow a truncated bivariate normal distribution and estimates it across all precincts.
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- Gary King formalised the problem and proposed a model-based solution (King, 1997) that imposes a distributional assumption on how individual-level proportions vary across precincts — specifically, that they follow a truncated bivariate normal distribution
- Fallacy of Division
- In statistics the same pattern is called the ecological fallacy — inferring an individual-level correlation from a group-level correlation — and it operates by exactly the same mechanism: the aggregate measure (literacy rate, crime rate, income) holds of the unit at one level, and the inferrer applies it without warrant to units at the level below
This sourceDefines the ecological inference problem as inferring individual-level relationships from aggregate data and treats the failure as a level-of-analysis error; note that the name 'ecological fallacy' post-dates Robinson (usually credited to Selvin 1958), which is why the article attributes it to no one.
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- In statistics the same pattern is called the ecological fallacy — inferring an individual-level correlation from a group-level correlation — and it operates by exactly the same mechanism: the aggregate measure (literacy rate, crime rate, income) holds of the unit at one level, and the inferrer applies it without warrant to units at the level below
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