methods
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: distribution

descriptive statistics
type: Concept
narrower: distribution

distribution
type: Concept
broader: economics of poverty
broader: descriptive statistics
broader: manufacturing and operations
broader: parametric statistics
broader: export/import strategies
broader: small business management
broader: processes and routines of journalism
definition: Distributions are ubiquitous in social science. They appear in the frameworks for analyzing particular topical domains, where they provide a diversity of shapes to represent the range of possible variability in fundamental quantities; in theories, where they provide basic tools for deriving predictions; and in empirical work, where underlying distributional forms are estimated and distributions serve to characterize operation of the unobservables. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods; Distribution]

economics of poverty
type: Concept
narrower: distribution

export/import strategies
type: Concept
narrower: distribution

manufacturing and operations
type: Concept
narrower: distribution

parametric statistics
type: Concept
narrower: distribution

processes and routines of journalism
type: Concept
narrower: distribution

small business management
type: Concept
narrower: distribution