The historical construction of correlation as a conceptual and operative instrument for empirical research

This article is meant to reconstruct-from the standpoint of sociology and history of science-the development of the concept and the operative instruments of statistical correlation. The starting point is the discussion of some key mathematical aspects of the Error Theory, including a detailed analys...

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Autor principal: Piovani, Juan Ignacio
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