Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 09, No. 4, 1978 by Title

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    • Single transferable vote and the Irish general election of 1977 

      Mair, Peter; Maguire, Maria (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)
      In an STV contest, too many names on a ballot paper can confuse voters and compound vote leakage (Mair and Laver, 1975), and we can assume that this did happen in the case of the Coalition. Whereas Fianna Fail nominated ...

    • Social areas in Dublin 

      Hourihan, Kevin (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)
      The primary purpose of the paper is not to examine Dublin's factorial ecology (even with different variables and methods), but rather to identify social areas in the city and examine their interrelationships and implications. ...

    • Substituting means for missing observations in regression 

      Conniffe, D. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1978)
      This note examines why the simple method of substituting means seems to give good results in certain circumstances. The objective is not to promote this simple approach instead of more sophisticated methods - no one has ...