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33. Models of Man, op cit.
34. W. TORGERSON, Theory and Methorls of Scaling, New York, Wiley, 1958;
C. C. COOMBS, Theory of Data, New York, Wiley, 1964.
35. There is an inventory of such work in V. CAPECCHI, ‘Une mkthode de classification
fondke sur l’entropie’, Revue frangaise de sociologie 5 (3), 1964, pp. 290-306, and
in Techniques de la classification automatique, Paris, Centre de Calcul de la Maison
des Sciences de l’Homme, 1965.
36. On this subject, the book by TORGERSON, op. cif., is out of date. See, for example,
BOUDON, op. cit.
37. See H. GUETZKOW, Simulation in Social Science: Readings, Englewood Cliffs
(N.J.), Prentice-Hall, 1962, and the special issue of the Archives europdennes de
sociologie on simulation (I, 1965).
38. Archives europiennes de sociologie (special issue on simulation) I, 1965, pp. 43-67.
39. It should nevertheless be noted that forecasting needs, in recent times, have given
rise to important research into statistical mathematics, for which thanks are due
mainly to econometrics (see for example E. MALINVAUD, Les mdthodes statistiques
de 1’6conomdtrie, Paris, Dunod, 1964) and psychometrics (see for example H.
SOLOMON (ed.), Studies in Item Analysis and Prediction, op. cit.).
40. W. K. ESTES, ‘Toward a Statistical Theory of Learning’, Psychological Review 57.
1950, PP. 94-107.
41. W. K. ESTES and C. J. BURKE, ‘Application of a Statistical Model to Sample Discrimination
Learning in Human Subjects’, Journal of Experimental Psychology 50,
1955, pp. 80-88.
42. See for instance L. L. THURSTONE, ‘The Learning Curve Equation’, Psychological
Monographs 26, 1919, pp. 1-51.
43. C. L. HULL, Principles of Behavior, New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1943.
44. Op. cit.
45. W. K. ESTES, ‘Of Models and Men’, American Psychologist 12, 1957, pp. 609-617;
P. SUPPES and R. C. ATKINSON, Markov Learning Models for Multiperson Znteractions,
Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1960.
46. COLEMAN, op. cif., and BOUDON, op. cit.
47. Cf. for example C. W. MILLS, The Sociological Zmagination, New York-London,
Oxford University Press, 1959, or P. BOURDIEU, et al., Le me‘tier de sociologue,
Paris, Mouton, 1968.