PROOF? NO. EVIDENCE? NO. A SKEPTIC'S COMMENT ON INVERARITY'S USE OF STATISTICAL INFERENCE.

The purpose of the comment in this article is twofold. These are to provide some groundwork for religious leader James M. Inverarity's response and to call attention to special issues regarding statistical inference for historical data. Perhaps the most common justification in sociology for. statist...

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Publicado en:American Sociological Review Vol. 42; no. 4; pp. 652 - 657
Autor principal: Berk, Richard A.
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Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Aug77
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