The Politics of Large Numbers - A History of Statistical Reasoning : A History of Statistical Reasoning

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Arguing from Social Facts 1(15) Prefects and Geometers 16(29) Judges and Astronomers 45(22) Averages and the Realism of Aggregates 67(36) Correlation and the Realism of Causes 103(44) Statistics and the State: France and Great Britain 147(31) Statistics and the State: Germany and the United States 178(32) The Part for the Whole: Monographs or Representative Samplings 210(26) Classifying and Encoding 236(43) Modeling and Adjusting 279(44) Conclusion: Disputing the Indisputable 323(16) Notes 339(4) References 343(16) Index 359