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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Ind. :
Indiana University Press,
©2004.
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| Colección: | United Nations intellectual history project.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.