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The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning

By Alain Desrosières , Camille Naish

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
067400969X, 9780674009691
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5968638 bytes)
Edition
New Ed
Pages
380\381
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-03-20 14:48:35
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The Politics of Large Numbers In this study of the history of statistics, which begins with probability theory in the 17th century, Alain Desrosieres shows how the evolution of modern statistics has been inextricably bound up with the knowledge and power of governments. Full description

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