William Petty，founder of political arithmetic
10.16462/j.cnki.zhjbkz.2020.03.023
- Author:
Qing－ru LI
1
;
Dong－qing YE
Author Information
1. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics，School of Public Health，Anhui Province Laboratory of Inflammation and Immune Mediated Diseases，Hefei 230032，China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Political arithmetic;
William Petty;
Biostatistics
- From:
Chinese Journal of Disease Control & Prevention
2020;24(3):369-372
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
William Petty ( 1623－1687) was a great 17th－century economist，statistician and one
of the founders of the Ｒoyal Society． He put forward the concept of " political arithmetic" and used the
method of " number，weight and measurement" to calculate and analyze the population and economic data of a country． His statistical methods laid the foundation for the development of statistics．
