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Eminent Victorians and early statistical societies
Author(s) -
Magnello Eileen
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2009.00357.x
Subject(s) - passion , statistical analysis , population , statistical evidence , history , genealogy , law , sociology , demography , political science , psychology , statistics , mathematics , null hypothesis , psychotherapist
The Victorians who founded statistical societies had a passion for facts and a concern for the poor. They were a varied bunch: novelists, the inventor of the computer, a predictor of population catastrophe and a philosopher who had his own corpse preserved and put on public display. In the Royal Statistical Society's 175th anniversary year Eileen Magnello looks at the characters who helped to form it.