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Applying Quantitative Techniques to Quantitative History: Poverty and Federal Expenditures in Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Felix G. Boni  and
Mitchell A. Seligson
Felix G. Boni
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
Mitchell A. Seligson
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
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In recent years there has been an upsurge in what has come to be called “quantitative history.” Despite the enthusiasm for this approach, however, some of its critics have validly claimed that its payoffs have all too often failed to live up to its promises of new and more accurate findings. Perhaps a central reason for this criticism is that although the quantitative historian may have been sufficiently thorough in collecting his data, he has often failed to apply to them the sensitive techniques of modern data analysis. Rather, he has continued to rely on more traditional methods of description such as means and percentages. As a result, quantitative works are often long on tables and short on analysis.

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Latin American Research Review , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , Summer 1973 , pp. 105 - 110
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Copyright © 1973 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

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Grateful acknowledgment is given to Professors Paul A. Beck, Raymond Corrado, James M. Malloy, Michael Margolis, Reid R. Reading, and Harold D. Sims of the University of Pittsburgh, and to Professor Peter H. Smith of the University of Wisconsin for their helpful comments on an earlier, unpublished version of this note.

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