caa a22 4500 397524684 CHVBK 20180308164641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199512 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036363 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036363 Log-Linear Models in Comparative Research: A Paradigm Lost? [Elektronische Daten] [JOS DESSENS, WIM JANSEN, KRISTEN RINGDAL] Major research questions in the field of social stratification and mobility deal with similarities and differences in the patterns of social mobility in space and time. Answers are typically given by means of regression or log-linear models. Kelley (1990) argues for the superiority of the former in detecting differences in bivariate correlations between two populations, and characterizes log-linear modelling of social mobility tables for contextual comparisons as a paradigm that has failed. In this paper we show that, other things being equal, log-linear models and OLS regression models have about the same statistical power provided that the statistical tests involved are based on the same number of degrees of freedom. This is true for detecting differences in linear as well as in non-linear relationships between two populations. Thus, there are no statistical grounds for choosing between OLS regression analysis and log-linear analysis. Kelley's substantive arguments against log-linear modelling in social stratification research can be matched by relatively new developments on multinomial logistic regression analysis. © Oxford University Press Articles nationallicence DESSENS JOS Department of Methodology and Statistics, and ICS University of Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands. E-mail:DESSENS@FSW.RUU.NL; JANSEN@FSW.RUU.NL aut JANSEN WIM Department of Methodology and Statistics, and ICS University of Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands. E-mail:DESSENS@FSW.RUU.NL; JANSEN@FSW.RUU.NL aut RINGDAL KRISTEN Department of Sociology and Political Science University of Trondheim, AVH, N-7055 Dragvoll, Norway. E-mail:KRISTEN.RINGDAL@AVH.UNIT.NO aut European Sociological Review Oxford University Press 11/3(1995-12), 261-271 0266-7215 11:3<261 1995 11 eursoj https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036363 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036363 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- DESSENS JOS Department of Methodology and Statistics, and ICS University of Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands. E-mail:DESSENS@FSW.RUU.NL; JANSEN@FSW.RUU.NL aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- JANSEN WIM Department of Methodology and Statistics, and ICS University of Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands. E-mail:DESSENS@FSW.RUU.NL; JANSEN@FSW.RUU.NL aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- RINGDAL KRISTEN Department of Sociology and Political Science University of Trondheim, AVH, N-7055 Dragvoll, Norway. E-mail:KRISTEN.RINGDAL@AVH.UNIT.NO aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Sociological Review Oxford University Press 11/3(1995-12), 261-271 0266-7215 11:3<261 1995 11 eursoj Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford