William Petty, founder of political arithmetic

LI Qing-ru; YE Dong-qing

doi:10.16462/j.cnki.zhjbkz.2020.03.023

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LI Qing-ru, YE Dong-qing. William Petty, founder of political arithmetic[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION, 2020, 24(3): 369-372. doi: 10.16462/j.cnki.zhjbkz.2020.03.023

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LI Qing-ru, YE Dong-qing. William Petty, founder of political arithmetic[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION, 2020, 24(3): 369-372. doi: 10.16462/j.cnki.zhjbkz.2020.03.023

LI Qing-ru, YE Dong-qing. William Petty, founder of political arithmetic[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION, 2020, 24(3): 369-372. doi: 10.16462/j.cnki.zhjbkz.2020.03.023

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LI Qing-ru, YE Dong-qing. William Petty, founder of political arithmetic[J]. CHINESE JOURNAL OF DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION, 2020, 24(3): 369-372. doi: 10.16462/j.cnki.zhjbkz.2020.03.023

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William Petty, founder of political arithmetic

doi: 10.16462/j.cnki.zhjbkz.2020.03.023

LI Qing-ru,
YE Dong-qing^,

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Province Laboratory of Inflammation and Immune Mediated Diseases, Hefei 230032, China

Funds: The Chinese National High Level Personnel Special Support Plan

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Corresponding author: YE Dong-qing, E-mail:anhuiydq@126.com
Received Date: 2020-02-19
Publish Date: 2020-03-10

Abstract

Abstract

William Petty(1623-1687) was a great 17 th-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.
- Political arithmetic,
- William Petty,
- Biostatistics

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