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	Goodman Association Model	Social Mobility Table
Field	Sociology	Sociology
Family	Regression model	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1979	1927 (concept); 1970s–1980s (modern analysis)
Originator	Leo A. Goodman	Pitirim Sorokin; refined by Hauser, Hout, Featherman
Type	Log-multiplicative model for association in ordered contingency tables	Cross-classification of social origins by destinations
Seminal source	Goodman, L. A. (1979). Simple models for the analysis of association in cross-classifications having ordered categories. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 74(367), 537–552.	Hauser, R. M. (1978). A structural model of the mobility table. Social Forces, 56(3), 919–953.
Aliases	RC association model, row-column association model, log-multiplicative model, RC(M) model	mobility table, intergenerational mobility table, origin-destination table, transition table analysis
Related	5	5
Summary	Goodman's association models, especially the row-column (RC) model, analyze the association in a two-way contingency table by representing it as a product of estimated scores for the row categories and scores for the column categories, scaled by an intrinsic association parameter. Introduced by Leo Goodman in 1979, they are log-multiplicative rather than purely log-linear, allowing ordered categories to be assigned data-driven scores and the strength of association to be summarized in a single, interpretable coefficient.	A social mobility table is a cross-classification of individuals by their social origin (typically a parent's class or occupation) and their own destination class, forming the empirical foundation of intergenerational mobility research. Analyzing it separates how much people move between classes, distinguishes movement forced by changing class sizes from genuine exchange, and isolates the underlying origin–destination association that measures the openness of a society.