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“The idea of using statistics to think about individuals is quite strange”
Author(s) -
Tarran Brian
Publication year - 2015
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.1740-9713.2015.00862.x
Subject(s) - set (abstract data type) , process (computing) , statistics , computer science , history , data science , psychology , operations research , mathematics , programming language
When life insurers set out to make risks, they created “statistical individuals” in the process. Brian Tarran interviews historian Dan Bouk about his new book, How Our Days Became Numbered