Ecometrics

2003
Raudenbush, Stephen W, Christopher Johnson, and Robert J Sampson. 2003. “A Multivariate, Multilevel Rasch Model with Application to Self-Reported Criminal Behavior.” Sociological Methodology 33: 169-211.
1999
Raudenbush, Stephen W, and Robert J Sampson. 1999. “'Ecometrics': Toward A Science of Assessing Ecological Settings, with Application to the Systematic Social Observation of Neighborhoods.” Sociological Methodology 29: 1-41.
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Sampson, Robert J, and Stephen W Raudenbush. 1999. “Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods.” American Journal of Sociology 105: 603-651.
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