Several people who live near a new 5G cell phone tower that AT&T put up at the intersection of Pepper Mill and Ridge Stone Drive in Corpus Christi are concerned that the tower's emissions may be bad for their health.
Several people who live near a new 5G cell phone tower that AT&T put up at the intersection of Pepper Mill and Ridge Stone Drive in Corpus Christi are concerned that the tower's emissions may be bad for their health.
Some residents of St John, St Peter, St Andrew and St Joseph received water yesterday, thanks to the St John District Emergency Organisation (DEO) and the Mount Zion Missions. Representatives of the two organisations were out and about in the parishes giving out bottles of water to people whose taps were dry. In the first instance, chairman of the St John DEO, John Haynes, said the donation was in collaboration …
Leo Goodman, Who Transformed Sociology With Stats, Dies at 92
He developed tools for researchers to analyze categorical data, revolutionizing the study of poverty, income inequality and social mobility. He died of Covid-19.
Leo A. Goodman devised statistical methods to analyze demographic data; his work had an immediate and lasting impact in areas like poverty and social mobility.Credit.via Goodman family
Published Feb. 17, 2021Updated Feb. 18, 2021
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Until Leo A. Goodman began his work on statistics in the early 1950s, researchers in the social sciences had a problem. It was easy enough to quantify the relationship between two numerical measurements say, how height correlates to income level. But what about nonnumerical categories, like race and occupation?