Open AccessRODOLFO BENINI: ALCUNI SUOI CONTRIBUTI ALLA STATISTICA IN OCCASIONE DEI 150 ANNI DALLA NASCITA
Author(s) -
Antonietta Mira
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
rendiconti. classe di lettere e scienze morali e storiche
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2384-9150
pISSN - 1124-1667
DOI - 10.4081/let.2012.206
Subject(s) - statistician , interpretation (philosophy) , humanities , sociology , statistics , philosophy , mathematics , linguistics
For the first time in Italy, thanks to the contributions of Rodolfo Benini, Statistics became an autonomous discipline, finally released from economical, demographical and social sciences to which was still assimilated. The rigor and the technical refinement of his analysis justify the importance attributed to his statistical contributions, and support the fact that he has been recognised by Corrado Gini as the first round Italian statistician. Starting from the interpretation by Marcello Boldrini of his «tre mirabili opere di sistemazione», I will deepen three of the main themes linked to the statistical methodology addressed by Benini: multiple linear regression, indexes of attraction and repulsion and the distribution of economical variables. I will conclude discussing his relationship with Pareto, whose law Benini first verified on income and later extended to other economical variables.