Statistics and the Scientific Method

David A. Freedman
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David A. Freedman: University of California, Department of Statistics

Chapter 11 in Cohort Analysis in Social Research, 1985, pp 343-366 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Regression models have not been so useful in the social sciences. In an attempt to see why, such models are contrasted with successful mathematical models in the natural sciences, including Kepler’s three laws of motion for the planets.

Keywords: Regression Model; Natural Science; Scientific Method; Circular Orbit; Elliptical Orbit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-8536-3_11

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