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The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning
Abstract
Introduction - arguing from social facts prefects and geometrics judges and astronomers averages and the realism of aggregates correlation and the realism of causes statistics and the state - France and Great Britain statistics and the state - Germany and the United States the part for the whole - monographs or representative sampling classifying and encoding modelling and adjusting conclusion - disputing the indisputable.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Houser, J. A., Desrosieres, A., & Naish, C.
- Venue
- Contemporary Sociology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1999-05
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 361
- ISSN
- 0094-3061 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2328876929
- Cited by
- 911
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 25.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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