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Data Dilemmas: Quantitative Data and the Social Science History Association

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2016

Allan G. Bogue*
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin

Extract

At this stage in the development of the Social Science History Association it is appropriate for us to consider some of the general problems concerning the development and use of machine-readable data and the Association’s role in such matters.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Social Science History Association 1979

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