Theodore M. Porter

'Trust in Numbers'

Bog | Engelsk

A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in N

'The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 18201900'

Bog | Engelsk

An essential work on the origins of statistics The Rise of Statistical Thinking , 18201900 explores the history of statistics from the field's origins in the nineteenth century through to the factors that produced the burst of modern statistical innov