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Statistics at German Universities before 1810
Author(s) -
Stamhuis Ida H.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.1991.tb00142.x
Subject(s) - german , statistics , order (exchange) , mathematics education , mathematical statistics , mathematics , sociology , history , economics , archaeology , finance
Summary This article discusses one of the predecessors of modern statistics: the German university teaching tradition called Staotenkunde or Statistik, the reaction of this tradition to people who started at the end of the eighteenth century to order available (mostly numerical) information in tables, and the probable source for the word “statistics”.