Description
Book SynopsisThis book is for people who are interested in formulating contextual theories and testing conditional or 'context-dependent' hypotheses using quantitative methods. Given the ubiquity of conditional relationships in the study of human behavior, scholars from across the social sciences will find something of value in this reading.
Table of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. The Fundamentals: 2. Theories and their conditional implications; 3. Interaction model specification; 4. Interpreting quantities of interest: effects, predicted values and measures of uncertainty; 5. Three substantive applications: interpretation and presentation; Part II. More Complex Forms of Conditionality: 6. When we have more than one modifying variable; 7. When an independent variable interacts with itself; Part III. Interactions and Limited Dependent Variables: 8. Interactions and dichotomous dependent variables; 9. Interactions and ordered dependent variables; 10. Interactions and unordered dependent variables; Appendices.
