Statistical Regularity and Free Will: L.A.J. Quetelet and P.A. Nekrasov

DOI10.1111/j.1751-5823.2003.tb00201.xzbMath1114.62302OpenAlexW2035019313MaRDI QIDQ4832054

Eugene Seneta

Publication date: 3 January 2005

Published in: International Statistical Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.isr/1069172302

zbMATH Keywords

Statistical regularityWeak Law of Large NumbersCauseFree willMoscow Mathematical SchoolSocial PhysicsStatistical independence and dependence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) History of statistics (62-03) History of game theory, economics, and finance (91-03) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Mathematical psychology (91E99) Mathematical sociology (including anthropology) (91D99)

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