Sur l’Homme et le Développement de ses Facultés, ou Essai de Physique Sociale.
Paris: Bachelier, 1835. First edition of Quetelet's principal work in which he presented his conception of the homme moyen (“average man”) as the central value about which measurements of a human trait are grouped according to the normal distribution. “With Quetelet's work of 1835 a new era in statistics began..... More
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