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Social Sciences and Statistics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Gudmund R. Iversen
Gudmund R. Iversen
Affiliation:
Swarthmore College
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Extract

Statistics is the one discipline in which people have concentrated almost exclusively on how to collect and analyze data. Statisticians have been doing this as a goal in itself without having to be encumbered by substantive issues arising from some other discipline. Most of their work can be broken into components that fall in one of three categories: data gathering, data reduction (descriptive statistics), and statistical inference.

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Review articles
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World Politics , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , October 1972 , pp. 145 - 154
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1972

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