Improving Data Analysis in Political Science
- 18 July 1969
- journal article
- Published by Project MUSE in World Politics
- Vol. 21 (4), 641-654
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2009670
Abstract
Students of politics use statistical and quantitative techniques to: summarize a large body of numbers into a small collection of typical values;confirm (and perhaps sanctify) the results of the analysis by using tests of statistical significance that help protect against sampling and measurement error;discover what's going on in their data and expose some new relationships; andinform their audience what's going on in the data.Keywords
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