ÉMile Durkheim's Pioneering Study Suicide Used Statistical Data to Look

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Essay

Émile Durkheim's pioneering study Suicide used statistical data to look for correlations between demographic variables and suicide. In what ways is his work compatible with Auguste Comte's ideas about how society should be studied?

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Definitions:

Sample Space

The set of all possible outcomes of a statistical experiment.

Experiment

A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.

Simple Events

Events that consist of a single outcome or occurrence, making them one of the most basic types of probabilistic events.

Compound Event

A type of event that combines two or more simple events, usually by "and" or "or" operations.