The Politics of Large Numbers
A History of Statistical Reasoning
Seiten
2002
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-00969-1 (ISBN)
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-00969-1 (ISBN)
In this sophisticated study of the history of statistics, 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 dictate the duties of the state and measure its successes.
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.
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.
Alain Desrosières is Administrateur, Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques, Paris.
Introduction: Arguing from Social Facts Prefects and Geometers Judges and Astronomers Averages and the Realism of Aggregates Correlation and the Realism of Causes Statistics and the State: France and Great Britain Statistics and the State: Germany and the United States The Part for the Whole: Monographs or Representative Sampling Classifying and Encoding Modeling and Adjusting Conclusion: Disputing the Indisputable
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.10.2002 |
|---|---|
| Übersetzer | Camille Naish |
| Zusatzinfo | 4 line illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 144 x 227 mm |
| Gewicht | 485 g |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-674-00969-X / 067400969X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-00969-1 / 9780674009691 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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