The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (693 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674689321 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Statistics-driven thinking is ubiquitous in modern society. 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.. He traces the complex reciprocity between modern governments and the mathematical artifacts that both dictate the duties o
(Joseph P. The broad theme of The Politics of Large Numbers is that statistical measures and probabilistic concepts are most usefully seen as matters of convention, rather than of objective reality. It is also now one of a number of recent histories of statistics published over the last fifteen years that offers a critical approach to statistics. Many of these--and some statisticians--would be surprised to discover how often statistics has responded to social developments or even influenced them. (Trevor J. Rather than accepting that statistics is necessarily correct because it is based on the seemingly universal logic of mathematics, The Politics of Large Numbers, and other works in the same genre, are keen to show that statistics is a contingent and local enterprise, one shot through with the peculiarities of the particular social, cultural, and p
"The prequel to The Road to Serfdom" according to Aaron C. Brown. F. A. Hayeks's The Road to Serfdom traced the idea of rational government planning and the welfare state to late 19th century German thinking. He argued that the original thinkers were profoundly anti-liberal and implementation of their seemingly benign proposals to make things more efficient and help people led inevitably to totalitarian horror states.The Politics of Large Numbers starts farthe. statistical philosophy and history This is a delightful book on the history of statistics. It is carefully researched and serious in a class witht eh works of Stigler, Porter, Hald and Salsburg.What is different and interesting about this book is the way it develops. It starts with social facts and the problems as they developed in various countries that required statistical methods and ideas for their solution. We are introduced