Adolphe Quetelet

Jean-Jacques Droesbeke and François Jongmans

A chapter in Statisticians of the Centuries, 2001, pp 127-131 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Active in many area of science, notably mathematics, astronomy and meteorology, Adolphe Quetelet owes his celebrity to the international blossoming under his impetus of the study of populations, emanating from sophisticated statistics organized systematically and treated probabilistically.

Keywords: International Statistical Institute; Foreign Colleague; Young Mathematician; Sophisticated Statistic; Focal Curve (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_26

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