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Libros antiguos y modernos

Desrosiëres Alain

The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning

Harvard University Press 2010,

46,00 €

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Autor
Desrosiëres Alain
Editores
Harvard University Press 2010
Materia
Scienza Science Mathematics
Descripción
S
Sobrecubierta
No
Conservación
Como nuevo
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Copia autógrafa
No
Primera edición
No

Descripción

8vo, br. ed. 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 DesrosiËres 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.