Standardization. The 1981 reader by Peter Marsden (Linear Models in Social Research) contains some useful and readable papers, and his introductory sections deserve to be read (as an unusually perceptive book reviewer noted in the journal Social Forces in 1983). One paper in that collection that has become a standard reference is Standardization in Causal Analysis by Kim and Ferree. Standardization, in the social and behavioral sciences, refers to the practice of redefining regression equati
