Report of the Proceedings of the Fourth Session of the International Statistical Congress
Author : William Farr
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Statistics
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Author : William Farr
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Statistics
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Author : William Farr
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,48 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781017488098
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Author : International Statistical Congress
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Page : 217 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
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Category : Statistics
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Author : International Statistical Congress
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Page : 25 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
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Category : Congresses and conventions
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Author : William Farr
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Page : 580 pages
File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Statistics
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Author : International Statistical Congress
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Page : 578 pages
File Size : 20,41 MB
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Author : Nico Randeraad
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 152614753X
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. In this fascinating study, Nico Randeraad vividly describes the turbulent history of statistics in nineteenth century Europe. The book deals not only with developments in the large states of Western Europe, but gives equal attention to small states (Belgium, the Netherlands, Hungary) and to the declining Habsburg Empire and Tsarist Russia. Then, unlike today, statistics constituted a comprehensive science, which stemmed from the idea that society, just like nature, was governed by laws. In order to discover these laws, everything had to be counted. What could be counted, could be solved: crime, poverty, suicide, prostitution, illness, and many other threats to bourgeois society. The statisticians, often trained as jurists, economists and doctors, saw themselves as pioneers of a better future. Offering an original perspective on the tensions between universalism and the rise of the nation-state in the nineteenth century, this book will appeal to historians, statisticians, and social scientists in general.
Author : Lawrence Goldman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0192663410
A defining feature of nineteenth-century Britain was its fascination with statistics. The processes that made Victorian society, including the growth of population, the development of industry and commerce, and the increasing competence of the state, generated profuse numerical data. This is a study of how such data influenced every aspect of Victorian culture and thought, from the methods of natural science and the struggle against disease, to the development of social administration and the arguments and conflicts between social classes. Numbers were collected in the 1830s by newly-created statistical societies in response to this 'data revolution'. They became a regular aspect of governmental procedure thereafter, and inspired new ways of interrogating both the natural and social worlds. William Farr used them to study cholera; Florence Nightingale deployed them in campaigns for sanitary improvement; Charles Babbage was inspired to design and build his famous calculating engines to process them. The mid-Victorians employed statistics consistently to make the case for liberal reform. In later decades, however, the emergence of the academic discipline of mathematical statistics - statistics as we use them today - became associated with eugenics and a contrary social philosophy. Where earlier statisticians emphasised the unity of mankind, some later practitioners, following Francis Galton, studied variation and difference within and between groups. In chapters on learned societies, government departments, international statistical collaborations, and different Victorian statisticians, Victorians and Numbers traces the impact of numbers on the era and the intriguing relationship of Victorian statistics with 'Big Data' in our own age.