"Making Sense of Figures": Statistics, Computing and Information Technologies in Agriculture and Biology in Britain, 1920s-1960s
Throughout the twentieth century statistical methods have increasingly become part of experimental research. In particular, statistics has made quantification processes meaningful in the soft sciences, which had traditionally relied on activities such as collecting and describing diversity rather th...
Main Author: | Parolini, Giuditta <1978> |
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Other Authors: | Müller-Wille, Staffan |
Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | en |
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Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
2013
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Online Access: | http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/5289/ |
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