Title: On "Solutions" to the Ecological Inference Problem
Authors: D. A. Freedman, S. P. Klein, M. Ostland and M. Roberts
Date: April 1998
Pub: PDF
Url: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~census/515.pdf
Abstract:
In his 1997 book, King announced "A Solution to the Ecological
Inference Problem".  This paper tests King's method on data sets
where truth is known.  His announcement is premature.  In the test
data, his method produces results that are far from truth, and
diagnostics are unreliable.  Ecological regression makes estimates
that are similar to King's, while the neighborhood model is much
more accurate.