Quantifying the world :: UN ideas and statistics /
Good data, Michael Ward argues, serve to enhance a perception about life as well as to deepen an understanding of reality. This history of the UN's role in fostering international statistics in the post-war period demonstrates how statistics have shaped our understanding of the world. Drawing o...
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Schriftenreihe: | United Nations intellectual history project.
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Zusammenfassung: | Good data, Michael Ward argues, serve to enhance a perception about life as well as to deepen an understanding of reality. This history of the UN's role in fostering international statistics in the post-war period demonstrates how statistics have shaped our understanding of the world. Drawing on well over 40 years of experience working as a statistician and economist in more than two dozen countries around the world, Ward traces the evolution of statistical ideas and how they have responded to the needs of policy while unravelling the question of why certain data were considered important and. |
Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xx, 329 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-309) and index. |
ISBN: | 025311084X 9780253110848 1282071483 9781282071483 |
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spelling | Ward, Michael. Quantifying the world : UN ideas and statistics / Michael Ward. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2004. 1 online resource (xx, 329 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier polychrome. rdacc http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003 data file United Nations intellectual history project Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-309) and index. Prologue -- Ideas and statistics : an introduction -- The economic dimension -- The social dimension -- The environmental dimension -- Other statistical dimensions -- Epilogue: Success, missed opportunities, and the continuing agenda in statistics. Print version record. Good data, Michael Ward argues, serve to enhance a perception about life as well as to deepen an understanding of reality. This history of the UN's role in fostering international statistics in the post-war period demonstrates how statistics have shaped our understanding of the world. Drawing on well over 40 years of experience working as a statistician and economist in more than two dozen countries around the world, Ward traces the evolution of statistical ideas and how they have responded to the needs of policy while unravelling the question of why certain data were considered important and. United Nations Statistical services. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86000566 Nations Unies Services statistiques. United Nations fast Statistical services. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85127574 Statistics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85127580 Services statistiques. Statistiques. Statistique. statistics. aat REFERENCE Research. bisacsh Statistical services fast Statistics fast Verenigde Naties. gtt Statistieken. gtt Electronic books. has work: Quantifying the world (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGKjwBym9HhcRCtc7HXFjC https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Ward, Michael. Quantifying the world. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2004 0253343976 0253216745 (DLC) 2003023831 (OCoLC)53398164 United Nations intellectual history project. FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=145239 Volltext |
spellingShingle | Ward, Michael Quantifying the world : UN ideas and statistics / United Nations intellectual history project. Prologue -- Ideas and statistics : an introduction -- The economic dimension -- The social dimension -- The environmental dimension -- Other statistical dimensions -- Epilogue: Success, missed opportunities, and the continuing agenda in statistics. United Nations Statistical services. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86000566 Nations Unies Services statistiques. United Nations fast Statistical services. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85127574 Statistics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85127580 Services statistiques. Statistiques. Statistique. statistics. aat REFERENCE Research. bisacsh Statistical services fast Statistics fast Verenigde Naties. gtt Statistieken. gtt |
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title | Quantifying the world : UN ideas and statistics / |
title_auth | Quantifying the world : UN ideas and statistics / |
title_exact_search | Quantifying the world : UN ideas and statistics / |
title_full | Quantifying the world : UN ideas and statistics / Michael Ward. |
title_fullStr | Quantifying the world : UN ideas and statistics / Michael Ward. |
title_full_unstemmed | Quantifying the world : UN ideas and statistics / Michael Ward. |
title_short | Quantifying the world : |
title_sort | quantifying the world un ideas and statistics |
title_sub | UN ideas and statistics / |
topic | United Nations Statistical services. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86000566 Nations Unies Services statistiques. United Nations fast Statistical services. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85127574 Statistics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85127580 Services statistiques. Statistiques. Statistique. statistics. aat REFERENCE Research. bisacsh Statistical services fast Statistics fast Verenigde Naties. gtt Statistieken. gtt |
topic_facet | United Nations Statistical services. Nations Unies Services statistiques. United Nations Statistical services. Statistics. Services statistiques. Statistiques. Statistique. statistics. REFERENCE Research. Statistical services Statistics Verenigde Naties. Statistieken. |
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