A Case of Empirical Study in the History of Statistics: Yule's Analysis of Pauperism

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10.2991/ammsa-17.2017.44How to use a DOI?

Keywords

empirical study; pauperism; George Udny Yule; correlation; history of statistics

Abstract

The relationship of Yule's analysis about pauperism with empirical study has been less recognized. The article explores the historical trace of research pauperism by Yule, which could be summarized as follows: (1) value the social problem from the innovative view of statistics; (2) arrange the available data and clearly state the source of material; (3) preprocess raw data to form complete series; (4) apply statistical theory to empirically analyze pauperism and deduce the accurate conclusions. The study results show that Yule's analysis of pauperism is no other than a case of empirical study in the history of statistics, which furthermore exactly embodied the interaction and integration between theory and practice.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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