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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Preface to the New Edition
Preface
Introduction
Part One: The Social Calculus
Chapter 1. Statistics as Social Science
The Politics of Political Arithmetic
The Numbers of a Dynamic Society
Chapter 2. The Laws That Govern Chaos
Quetelet and the Numerical Regularities of Society
Liberal Politics and Statistical Laws
Chapter 3. From Nature’s Urn to the Insurance Office
Part Two: The Supreme Law of Unreason
Chapter 4. The Errors of Art and Nature
Quetelet: Error and Variation
Chapter 5. Social Law and Natural Science
Molecules and Social Physics
Galton and the Reality of Variation
Part Three: The Science of Uncertainty
Chapter 6. Statistical Law and Human Ereedom
The Opponents of Statistics
Statistics and Free Will
The Science of Diversity
Statistik: Between Nature and History
Chapter 7. Time’s Arrow and Statistical Uncertainty in Physics and Philosophy
Buckle’s Laws and Maxwell’s Demon
Boltzmann, Statistics, and Irreversibility
Peirce’s Rejection of Necessity
Part Four: Polymathy and Discipline
Chapter 8. The Mathematics of Statistics
Lexis’s Index of Dispersion
Edgeworth: Mathematics and Economics
Chapter 9. The Roots of Biometrical Statistics
Galton’s Biometrical Analogies
Regression and Correlation
Pearson and Mathematical Biometry
Conclusion
Index
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