Statistical Distributions in Social Research

Gideon Vigderhous
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Gideon Vigderhous: Bell Canada Survey Research Group

Evaluation Review, 1980, vol. 4, issue 2, 241-272

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to introduce social scientists to the Pearson System of Frequency Curves. This statistical procedure is an important tool in the identification of a wide range of statistical distributions from empirical data. Given that sociological phenomena are more likely to conform to various types of skewed distributions rather than the normal one, it is a methodological advantage to identify a specific skewed dis tribution which conforms to a statistical distribution. The article presents several em pirical examples in the identification of statistical distributions and provides possible useful applications in social research.

Date: 1980
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DOI: 10.1177/0193841X8000400205

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