Explanatory Power of Models

• General Introduction.- 1 The determinants of infant mortality: how far are conceptual frameworks really modelled ?.- 2 The role of statistical and formal techniques in experimental psychology.- 3 Explanatory models in suicide research: explaining relationships.- 4 Attitudes towards ethnic minorities and and support for ethnic discrimination, A test of complementary models.- 5 Computer simulation methods to model macroeconomics.- 6 The explanatory power of Artificial Neural Networks.- 7 On modelling in human geography.- 8 The explanatory power of migration models.- 9 The role of models in comparative politics.- 10 Elementary mathematical modelization of games and sports.- 11 Computer modelling of theory, explanation for the 21st century.- 12 The logicist analysis of explanatory theories in archaeology.- General Conclusion.- Name index.

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