SOAN 2112 Lecture Notes - Long-Term Care, Royal Statistical Society, Crimean War

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2112
• Professor: Linda Hunter

Document Summary

By lynn macdonald, director collected works of florence nightingale. Applied social science, especially for health care. The cause of the passionate statiscian: to save lives. To do this requires knowledge of god"s laws the laws of nature. God governs by his laws, but so do we when we have discovered them. If it were otherwise, we could not learn from the past for the future (essay in memoriam) Read and interview experts: you need to know what information exists before researching yourself, because you want to add to the information that exists. If available info is inadequate, collect your own. Consult experts on it, practitioners who use it. When writing up, consult experts (peer review: before publishing it, no official system of peer review at her time, she did it informally. Laws govern society as well as naural world. You can calculate because proportions are constant from year to year.