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082			_a519.509 _bDES-P
100			_aDesrosieres, Alain
245			_aThe politics of large numbers : _ba history of statistical reasoning _cby Alain Desrosieres
260			_aLondon : _bHarvard University Press, _c©1998
300			_a368 p. ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505			_t1. Prefects and Geometers
505			_t2. Judges and Astronomers
505			_t3. Averages and the Realism of Aggregates
505			_t4. Correlation and the Realism of Causes
505			_t5. Statistics and the State: France and Great Britain
505			_t6. Statistics and the State: Germany and the United States
505			_t7. The Part for the Whole: Monographs or Representative Samplings
505			_t8. Classifying and Encoding
505			_t9. Modeling and Adjusting
520			_aIn this study of the history of statistics, which begins with probability theory in the seventeenth century, Alain Desrosieres shows how the evolution of modern statistics has been inextricably bound up with the knowledge and power of governments. He traces the complex reciprocity between modern governments and the mathematical artifacts that both dictate the duties of the state and measure its successes
650			_aStatistics -- History
650			_aStatistical services
650			_aStatistical reasoning
700			_aNaish, Camille _etranslator
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999			_c190090 _d190090