The idea is to determine what features of the website encourage the desired result . " Fallout analysis, " a subset of path analysis, looks at " black holes " on the site, or paths that lead to a dead end most frequently, paths or features that confuse or lose potential customers.
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More specifically, he has been concerned to develop more adequate theoretical foundations for human ecology and ecological economics to provide an alternative to neo-classical economics as the core discipline for formulating public policy, and has been developing a form of retrospective path analysis as an alternative to cost-benefit analysis as a framework for formulating such policy.
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His key scholarly contributions include the introduction of path analysis to sociology; the measurement of occupational socioeconomic standing with an index ( Duncan Socioeconomic Index ); the study of intergenerational occupational mobility; the spatial analysis of residential patterns; the application and advancement of log-linear models and Rasch models for categorical social science data; and a landmark treatise on social measurement ( Duncan 1984 ).
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Aardweg accused Bell " et al . " of admitting the limitations of path analysis only to forget or ignore those limitations, arguing that path analysis had " numerous dubious premises " and that Bell " et al . " used it in a way that was open to technical objections such as its failure to " distinguish between different types of psychodynamic development to homosexuality ".
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Aardweg accused Bell " et al . " of admitting the limitations of path analysis only to forget or ignore those limitations, arguing that path analysis had " numerous dubious premises " and that Bell " et al . " used it in a way that was open to technical objections such as its failure to " distinguish between different types of psychodynamic development to homosexuality ".
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Critics questioned Bell " et al . " 2 s reliance upon a statistical technique, originally developed for use in the biological sciences, called path analysis, disputed the representativeness of their sample of homosexuals, and pointed out the difficulty and potential unreliability of adult recall of childhood feeling, as well as the vague and general nature of the questions Bell " et al . " asked their research subjects.
