Seasonal Variation in the Births of the Mentally Deficient—A Reply
- 1 November 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
- Vol. 50 (11) , 1737-1742
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.50.11.1737
Abstract
J. Pub. Hlth. A reply to a criticism made by Sterling, Am. J. Pub. Hlth. 50:955, 1960, discusses 3 major areas of error made by the critic, e.g. lack of comprehension of inductive versus deductive analysis, erroneous application of sampling theory and statistical inference to large scale population data, and ignorance of well established health information. The critic ignored the only hypothesis tested in the study making his criticism irrelevant where it is not incorrect. A number of statistical errors made by Sterling are discussed.Keywords
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