Identification and estimation of latent attitudes and their behavioral implications
Identification and estimation of latent attitudes and their behavioral implications
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潜在态度及其行为影响的识别和估计
DOI：
10.1920/wp.cem.2006.1206
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
R. Spady
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作者：
R. Spady
本文（i）形式化的条件下，人口分布的分类反应的态度问题（？tems？具有比例表示;（ii）开发测试是否一个特定的样本项目的反应是一致的规模表示;（iii）开发方法nonparametrically估计结果和规模值之间的关系;和（iv）概括上述多尺度的情况。这些结果的一个含义是，多个潜在的态度对行为的影响可以确定，即使一个人的态度永远不能被精确观察。我们说明我们的方法使用调查数据从1992年美国总统大选，在哪里？“投票”是个人的投票，而？tems是社会和政策偏好的表达。
This paper (i) formalizes conditions under which a population distribution of categorical responses to attitudinal questions (?tems? has a scale representation; (ii) develops tests for whether a particular sample of item responses is consistent with a scale representation; (iii) develops methods for nonparametrically estimating the relation between an outcome and a scale value; and (iv) generalizes the foregoing to the multi-scale case. An implication of these results is that the effect of multiple latent attitudes on behaviour can be identified, even though the attitudes of an individual can never be precisely observed. We illustrate our methods using survey data from the 1992 U.S. Presidential election, where the ?utcome' is an individual's vote and the ?tems' are expressions of social and policy preferences.