SOAN 2112 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ideal Type, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Umberto Boccioni

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

Document Summary

The cause of the passionate statistician: to save lives. To 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 . If the available info is inadequate collect your own: draw up a questionnaire (queries) Consult experts on it, practitioners who use it. Laws govern society as well as natural world. Quetelet: the creator of a new science in which observation and calculation are allied to bring out the immutable laws which govern phenomena apparently the most accidental of our physical life to our least actions. The role of statistics: consecrated blunders in medicine to prove the need of statistics. Statistics must be made otherwise than to prove a preconceived idea. Quetelet gave examples of infant mortality in foundling hospitals. You have to look at the results, not by intentions.