The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning - Softcover

Desrosières, Alain

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067400969X ISBN 13: 9780674009691

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Statistics-driven thinking is ubiquitous in modern society. In this ambitious and sophisticated study of the history of statistics, which begins with probability theory in the seventeenth century, Alain Desrosières shows how the evolution of modern statistics has been inextricably bound up with the knowledge and power of governments. He traces the complex reciprocity between modern governments and the mathematical artifacts that both dictate the duties of the state and measure its successes.

No other work, in any language, covers such a broad spectrum--probability, mathematical statistics, psychology, economics, sociology, surveys, public health, medical statistics--in accurately synthesizing the history of statistics, with an emphasis on the conceptual development of social statistics, culminating in twentieth-century applied econometrics.

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Alain Desrosières is Administrateur, Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques, Paris.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 067400969X
• ISBN 13: 9780674009691
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 380
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