Seminar: Renáta Németh (ELTE)

Renáta Németh (ELTE): Discrete Graphical Models in Social Mobility Research

 

Where: RECENS, 1014 Budapest, Országház u. 30. 
When: June 10th, 2014 15:00

 

Abstract

Graphical models provide a well visualizable and easily interpretable representation of complex associations. The models are based on graphs in which nodes represent variables and missing edges represent conditional independence statements. These models are well suited to model direct and indirect associations and effects that are of central importance in many problems of social mobility research.

 

The talk provides a unified view of many of the graphical models discussed in a largely scattered literature. The marginal loglinear modeling framework proposed relies on parameters that capture aspects of associations among the variables that are relevant for the graph and, depending on the substantive problem at hand, may lead to a deeper insight than other approaches.

 

References

Németh R, Rudas T: On the application of discrete marginal graphical models. SOCIOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY (2013)

Németh, R, Rudas T: Discrete Graphical Models in Social Mobility Research: A Comparative Analysis of American, Czechoslovakian and Hungarian Mobility before the Collapse of State Socialism. BULLETIN OF SOCIOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY (2013)

 

Personal webpage:

http://nemethr.web.elte.hu