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Adolphe Quetelet also had a significant influence on Florence Nightingale who shared with him a religious view of statistics which saw understanding statistics as revealing the work of God in addition to statistics being a force of good administration. Nightingale met Quetelet in person at the 1860 International Statistical Congress in London ...
The first International Statistical Congress was held on September 19, 1853 in Brussels, Belgium, with twenty-six countries in attendance. [1] It was principally organised by Belgian astronomer and statistician Adolphe Quetelet, who envisioned a standardisation of European units of measurement to allow for collaborative research to be done between nations.
Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874), another important founder of statistics, introduced the notion of the "average man" (l'homme moyen) as a means of understanding complex social phenomena such as crime rates, marriage rates, and suicide rates. [22]
Together with Adolphe Quetelet he may be regarded as the founder of moral statistics which led to the development of criminology, sociology and ultimately, modern social science. Early life and education
Quetelet, Adolphe: Belgian: 1796: 1874: Pioneered the use of probability and statistics in the social sciences: Nightingale, Florence: English: 1820: 1910: Applied statistical analysis to health problems, contributing to the establishment of epidemiology and public health practice. Developed statistical graphics especially for mobilizing public ...
1835 – Adolphe Quetelet's Treatise on Man introduces social science statistics and the concept of the "average man", 1866 – John Venn's Logic of Chance defends the frequency interpretation of probability.
Adolph Quetelet published data on European population.. Adolph Quetelet was a proponent of social physics.In his book Physique sociale [1] he presents distributions of human heights, age of marriage, time of birth and death, time series of human marriages, births and deaths, a survival density for humans and curve describing fecundity as a function of age.
After Saint-Simon and Comte, Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet, proposed that society be modeled using mathematical probability and social statistics. Quetelet's 1835 book, Essay on Social Physics: Man and the Development of his Faculties, outlines the project of a social physics characterized by measured variables that follow a normal ...