Housing,class and health: an example of an attempt at doing socialist research

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These issues are discussed by Keat, R. 'Positivism and Statistics in Social Science', in Irvine, J. et al. (eds) Demystifying Social Statistics, Pluto , 1979.

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These are summarized in the Black Report.

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We are raising the possibility of interaction here. Marsh defines interaction thus: 'The operational definition of interaction - is a situation in which the relationship between two variables depends on the value of a third. But pursuing the realists argument, what it asserts is that, underlying this, the processes of causal delimination in the external worlds are not the same for all members of the population' (1982: 16). In this instance we are suggesting that there may be a combination of bad housing and other aspects of class which makes effects worse.

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For details see Ref. 15 above.

For details see Ref. 10 above.

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See Marsh , op. cit. , pp.61-62, for a general discussion of 'hierarchy' in this context.

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Gilbert, op. cit., Chapter 6, 'Choosing and Fitting Models', explains this procedure fully.

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