Ecological regression
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Ecological regression
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Ecological regression is a statistical technique which runs regression on aggregates, often used in political science and history to estimate group voting behavior from aggregate data. For example, if counties have a known Democratic vote D, and a known percentage of Catholics, C, then running a linear regression of dependent variable D against independent variable C will give D = a + bC. If the regression gives D = .22 + .45C for example, then the estimated Catholic vote is 67% Democratic and t
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Statistical technique
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2022-08-04T18:00:50Z
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