A STATISTICAL TEST OF SIGNIFICANCE APPLIED TO A SOCIOLOGICAL PROBLEM: VARIATION IN ACCIDENT RATES FROM MOTOR VEHICLES.
Headlines in the "Times-Dispatch" for October 8, 1951 told that "Big United States Traffic Toll is a Blot on Nation: State Shares Blame." The text was based on figures just released by the National Safety Council on deaths by motor-vehicle by state of accident, 1950. The national average was 7.5 dea...
| Publicado en: | American Sociological Review Vol. 17; no. 6; pp. 755 - 762 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
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