TY - JOUR
AU - Whittle, P.
AB - 118 Reviews [part I, question of luck. Many potentially interesting research projects, as we all know, end up in dead ends, whereas apparently dull and routine problems can turn out to have unexpectedly interesting aspects. In both cases a degree of maturity is required in judging the potential worth of a projected piece of research which it would be unfair to expect the average student to possess. As this book well illustrates, the project technique can be an excellent vehicle for teaching and learning for many (perhaps most) students, but in my experience not all. As a means of assessment of achievement, however, it raises problems which teachers of economics are only just beginning to become aware of. R. K. WILKINSON Sheffield University 14. Latent Variables in Socio-economic Models. Edited by D. J. Aigner and A. S. Goldberger. Amsterdam, North-Holland, 1977. xiv, 383 p. 23 em. $48.95. In the last few years there has been a strong resurgence of interest in "latent variable models" among those concerned with the analysis of econometric, psychometric and sociological data. The term refers to models in which some of the variables of interest are not observable. More specifically, the variables which enter the 
TI - Latent Variables in Socio-Economic Models
JF - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)
DO - 10.2307/2344794
DA - 2018-12-05
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/latent-variables-in-socio-economic-models-PGtcE6fn2m
SP - 118
EP - 118
VL - 141
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -