Die „Frankfurter Schule“ in der Statistik und ihre Folgen

Peter Lippe ()

AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv, 2013, vol. 7, issue 1, 89 pages

Abstract: “Frankfurt School” (FSS) here denotes a group of statisticians (three generations of professors at the University of Frankfurt/Germany). The period in which FSS was fairly active and influential covered about six decades beginning in the 1920ies. The school focused “understanding” and verbal interpretation of statistics rather than developing mathematically advanced methods in statistics. It deliberately emphasized problems of descriptive and official statistics at the expense of a more “formal” approach. Hence one of the consequences of the temporary sway of the FSS in German statistics was Germany’s lagging behind in the respective fields of Statistics after the Second World War. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

Keywords: Grundlagen der Statistik; Indextheorie; Zahlenlogik und Sachlogik; Flaskämper; Adäquationsproblem; Vergleichbarkeit; Verbale Interpretation von Statistiken; B16; C40; C43; C80; E01; E31; Conceptual problems of measurement and data collection; Evaluation of index number formulas; Comparability; Flaskämper; Interpretation of descriptive statistics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s11943-013-0129-y

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