The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 14, No. 3, 1983

 

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  • Physician-induced demand for medical-care - irish general-practitioners 

    Tussing, Ad (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1983)
    Abstract: In a cross-section study based on a national household sample survey, return visits with general practitioners (GPs) vary with the ratio of GPs to population. Thus, higher physician supply, which by itself would ...

  • Mild mental handicap and special-education need - a social-process perspective 

    Oconnor, S (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1983)
    Abstract: The findings to be reported are those of a study of the process of ascertainment as mildly and mentally handicapped within the national school system in Ireland. The purpose of the study was to explore the operation ...

  • Political-attitudes, partisanship and social-structures in northern-ireland 

    Mcallister, I (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1983)
    Abstract: This paper applies multivariate analysis to 1978 survey data to examine the attitude structure of the Northern Ireland electorate and its effect on partisanship. Four political attitudes are extracted: two communal ...

  • Commercialization in west of ireland agriculture in the 1890s 

    Cuddy, Michael; Curtin, Chris (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1983)
    Abstract: The "sale of farm products ratio" indicator is used in this paper to establish the extent to which the agricultural economy of the West of Ireland and, in particular, the economy of the smaller landholders was ...

  • Fisher, R.A.. - a memoir 

    Geary, R.C. (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1983)
    Since my mathematical statistics, such as they were, are the greatest thing in my life, R.A. Fisher, their finest exponent, was the greatest man in my life, though I had little personal contact with him. There were very ...

  • Geary,robert,charles - an appreciation 

    Spencer, Je (Economic & Social StudiesDUBLIN, 1983)
    Roy Geary, Ireland's greatest statistician, died in Dublin on 8 February 1983, after a long life devoted to mathematical statistics. He was born on 11 April , 1896 and was educated at University College, Dublin, 1913-1918, ...