Book ID: CBB000080061

The politics of large numbers: A history of statistical reasoning. Translated by Camille Naish (1998)

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Desrosières, Alain (Author)


Harvard University Press


Publication Date: 1998
Physical Details: xi + 368 pp.; bibl.; index

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Review Sheynin, O. (2001) Review of "The politics of large numbers: A history of statistical reasoning. Translated by Camille Naish". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 184). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Desrosières, Alain
Daston, Lorraine J.
Hacking, Ian
Porter, Theodore M.
Stigler, Stephen M.
Armatte, Michel
Journals
Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Revue Française de Sociologie
Science in Context
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Harvard University Press
Princeton University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Éditions La Découverte
Concepts
Probability and statistics
Mathematics
Social surveys
Translations
Evidence
Science and politics
People
Pascal, Blaise
Pearson, Karl
Bernoulli, Jakob
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Soviet Union
France
Norway
Russia
Institutions
Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory
Société de Statistique de Paris
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