1969/07/01 by Edward R. Tufte · 2 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · Mathematics · #Game Theory and Voting Systems #Electoral Systems and Political Participation #Data collection #Politics #Data science #Sampling (signal processing) #Statistical analysis #Computer science #Statistics #Political science #Mathematics #Law #Telecommunications
paper · doi:10.2307/2009670
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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; and inform their audience what's going on in the data.