From the 1970s to the early 1990s, the SPES project investigating the foundations of the socio-political decision-making system in Germany (Sozialpolitisches Entscheidungs- und Indikatorensystem) and Sfb-3, the Collaborative Research Programme on the Microanalytical Foundations of Social Policy...

Although Bayes’ theorem has been around for more than 250 years, widespread application of the Bayesian approach only began in statistics in 1990. By 2000, Bayesian statistics had made considerable headway into social science, but even now its direct use is rare in articles in top sociology...