CAUSAL ANALYSIS OF CATEGORICAL DATA - PREHISTORY AND BEGGINING OF MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS IN SOCIOLOGY Cover Image

UZROČNA ANALIZA KATEGORIJALNIM PODATAKA - PREDISTORIJA I POČETAK MULTIVARIJACIONE ANALIZE U SOCIOLOGIJI
CAUSAL ANALYSIS OF CATEGORICAL DATA - PREHISTORY AND BEGGINING OF MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS IN SOCIOLOGY

Author(s): Slobodan P. Cvejić
Subject(s): History and theory of sociology, Methodology and research technology, Evaluation research
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: causal analysis; empirical investigations; variables; determinism;

Summary/Abstract: Dürkheim saw statistics as a mean for extraction of social phenomena from single forms of their manifestation. He took over the concept of multidimensionality sociologically, but not statistically. What was that Dürkheim missed to make his causal inference on non-experimental data better? Not just multiple regression or correlation, but a set of procedures for contingency table analysis, developed these days by Pearson and Yule Moreover,

  • Issue Year: 31/1997
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 403-420
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian