Debiprasad Singha Mahapatra
Special Issue June 2023
Volume-XI, Special Issue, June 2023 | ||
Published Online: 30.06.2025 | Page No: 268-280 | |||
The application of statistics in
sociology
Debiprasad Singha Mahapatra, State Aided College Teacher,
Department of Mathematics, Panchmura Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal, India | |
Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to review some of the statistical method used in the field of social Sciences. Methodology-The statistical methodologies used in areas like survey methodology, official statistics, Sociology, psychology, criminology, public policy, marketing research, demography, education and economics. Findings- Several areas are presented such as parametric modeling, non-parametric modeling and multivariate methods. Focus is also given to time series modeling, analysis of categorical data and sampling issues and other useful techniques for the analysis of data in the social sciences. Indicative references are given for all the above methods along with some insights for the application of these techniques. Originality- This paper reviews some statistical methods that are used in social sciences and the author draw the attention of researchers less popular methods. The purpose is not to give technical details and also not to refer to all the existing techniques or all the possible areas of statistics. The focus is mainly on the applied aspect of the techniques and the author give insights about techniques that can be used to answer problems in the above mentioned areas of research. | |
Keywords: Statistics, Sampling, Social sciences, Parametric, Non-parametric,Multivariate, Time series, Statistical modeling, Social statistics, Markov chain process, ANOVA. |