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A Dictionary of Sociology | 1998 | | Â© A Dictionary of Sociology 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

statistics See CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTINGENCY TABLE; DISSIMILARITY, INDEX OF; GINI COEFFICIENT; HAZARD MODEL; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; LOGISTIC (OR LOGIT) REGRESSION; LOGLINEAR ANALYSIS; LORENZ CURVE; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ODDS RATIO; OFFICIAL STATISTICS; PARAMETRIC STATISTICS; PIE-CHART; REGRESSION; SAMPLING; SIGNIFICANCE TESTS; STATISTICAL INDEPENDENCE; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; STATISTICAL INTERACTION; VARIATION (STATISTICAL).

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