March 30, 2011

Fair's Affairs, or, Adultery 1969 (Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View)

Background on the 1969 Psychology Today survey and Fair's theory of optimal adultery. Logistic regression for counts vs. logistic regression for binary outcomes. Comparison of predictions on a qualitative level. Quantitative comparison of predicted probabilities of adultery across models. Checking calibration. Sanity-checking of the specification. Scientific evaluation of the models. Does it make sense to keep analyzing this data?

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Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View

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