Cause, Law, and Probability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2517469 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen P Turner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0735-2751 • E-ISSN: 1467-9558 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/201988 |
| OpenAlex | W2320219454 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
platform for reformist muckrakers, insisted that the cognitive aims of the section be brought into line with the other committees, and insisted on the following definition: 'Statistics is the study of those classes of facts relating to communities of men which are capable of being expressed by numbers, and which promise, when sufficiently multiplied, to indicate general laws ' (quoted in Morrell and Thackray, 1981, p. 292, emphasis in original). The idea has had a long subsequent history. Mayo-Smith's Statistics and Sociology, one of the formative texts of early American sociology, appealed to the idea that
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2006 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |