Gustav Theodor Fechner

Michael Heidelberger

A chapter in Statisticians of the Centuries, 2001, pp 142-147 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Physicist, psychologist and philosopher, Fechner is noted for the introduction of quantitative methods into psychology. He also developed a “theory of collectives” which is built on the frequency interpretation of probability.

Keywords: Collective Object; Frequency Interpretation; Extreme Rank; Mass Phenomenon; Psychophysical Parallelism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_29

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