Original title: From John Graunt to Adolphe Quetelet: on the Origins Of Demography
Authors: Kalina, Jan
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: RELIK 2023: Reproduction of Human Capital - mutual links and connections /16./, Praha (CZ), 20231123
Year: 2023
Language: eng
Abstract: John Graunt (1620-1674) and Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874) were two important personalities, who contributed to the origins of demography. As they both developed statistical techniques for the analysis of demographic data, they are important also from the point of view of history of statistics. The contributions of both Graunt and Quetelet especially to the development of mortality tables and models are recalled in this paper. Already from the 17th century, the available mortality tables were exploited for computing life annuities. Also the contribution of selected personalities inspired by Graunt are recalled here, the work of Christian Huygens, Jacob Bernoulli, or Abraham de Moivre is discussed to document that the historical development of statistics and probability theory was connected with the development of demography.
Keywords: history of demography; history of statistics; moral statistics; mortality tables; probability theory
Host item entry: RELIK 2023. Conference Proceedings, ISBN 978-80-245-2499-3

Institution: Institute of Computer Science AS ČR (web)
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External URL: https://relik.vse.cz/2023/download/pdf/671-Kalina-Jan-paper.pdf
Original record: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0349892

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