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	Adolphe Quetelet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quételet (February 22, 1796 – 1874) was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist.
		Quetelet received a doctorate in mathematics in 1819 from the University of Ghent.
		Quetelet was among the first who attempted to apply it to social science, planning what he called a "social physics".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adolphe_Quetelet (389 words)

	Famous Belgians - Lambert Adolphe Quetelet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Quetelet was convinced that probability influenced the course of human affairs more so than earlier generations had and more so than his contemporaries did.
		Quetelet had come to be known as the champion of a new science, dedicated to mapping the normal physical and moral characteristics.
		Quetelet believed that if the investigator took care to ensure that they had obtained accurate measurements of individuals belonging to a particular race or nationality, it would be possible to determine any unknown physical or intellectual aspect of the population under investigation.
	www.famousbelgians.net /quetelet.htm (616 words)

	Adolphe Quetelet Biography / Biography of Adolphe Quetelet World of Mathematics Biography
		Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques Quetelet was one of the individuals most responsible in the 19th century for the quantification of argumentsin the physical and social sciences.
		Quetelet reveals a general understanding that the reliability of an average increases with the size of the population.
		The "average man" as Quetelet envisioned may have been a figment of the imagination, but the recognition of the importance of data-gathering was a timely lesson for a scientific culture about to undergo a probabilistic revolution.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-adolphe-quetelet-wom (721 words)

	Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874)
		Adolphe Quetelet was one of the most influential social statisticians of the nineteenth century.
		Quetelet was convinced that probability influenced the course of human affairs more so than earlier generations had a nd more so than his contemporaries did.
		Quetelet believed that if the investigator took care to ensure that they had obtained accurate measurements of individuals belonging to a particular race or nationality, it would be possible to determine any unknown physical or intellectual aspect of t he population under investigation.
	www.mrs.umn.edu /~sungurea/introstat/history/w98/Quetelet.html (723 words)

	Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quételet - Wikipedia
		Quetelet suchte weiterhin nach statistischen Besonderheiten der Lebenserwartung oder charakterlicher und sozialer Eigenschaften wie die Neigung zur Schriftstellerei oder zur Kriminalität.
		Quetelet gilt heute als Begründer der modernen Sozialstatistik.
		Quetelets Untersuchungen zum menschlichen Körper hatten später großen Einfluss auf Alphonse Bertillon, der basierend auf seinen Untersuchungen die Bertillonage entwickelte.
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	Acquiring Statistics \| Adolphe Quetelet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Quetelet was born in Ghent, to a French father who had established himself there ten years earlier, and a Brabantine mother.
		Quetelet made contact with the Minister of Public Education, and interested him in the founding of an observatory in Brussels.
		This "moral statistics" of Quetelet is the distant progenitor of the modern science of sociology.
	www.umass.edu /wsp/statistics/tales/quetelet.html (1592 words)

	LAMBERT ADOLPHE JACQUES QUETELET - LoveToKnow Article on LAMBERT ADOLPHE JACQUES QUETELET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Belgian astronomer, meteorologist and statistician, was born at Ghent on the 22nd of February 1796, and educated at the lyceum of that town.
		His son, ERNEST QUETELET (182578), was from 1856 attached to the observatory, and on his death succeeded him as director.
		Quetelets astronomical papers refer chiefly to shooting stars and similar phenomena.
	79.1911encyclopedia.org /Q/QU/QUETELET_LAMBERT_ADOLPHE_JACQUES.htm (455 words)

	Coven, A History of Statistics in the SocialSciences
		Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874) was a Belgian social statistician who was a forerunner in demonstrating the importance of statistics to social science.
		Quetelet suggests that this reaction should involve adherence of principles to a criminal code, the constant detection and prosecution of criminals, uniformity in the decisions of juries and judges, and the maintenance of a proper relation between the gravity of the offence and the punishment awarded it (1846, Letters pp.
		Quetelet was a pioneer in pointing to the existence of regularities in social phenomena.
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	QUETELET, A., Physique sociale, ou essai sur le développement des facultés de l'homme. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Quetelet was the first to promote the study of human statistics in France.
		Quetelet's influence on statistics came first of all from his practical work in census taking, the practical rules developed by him still forming the basis of modern census work.
		In the field of theory Quetelet is known above all for his conception of the homme moyen or average man, a conception which in its positive contribution represents the application of the Gaussian normal law of error to the analysis of distributions of data on human characteristics.
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	Adolphe Quetelet
		Adolphe Quetelet received his first doctorate in 1819 from Ghent for a dissertation on the theory of conic sections.
		Adolphe Quetelet, 1796-1874 : contributions en hommage a son role de sociologue (Brussels, 1977).
		R A Horvath, The centenary of Quetelet's death and the development of statistical discipline, Bull.
	www.shsu.edu /~icc_cmf/bio/quetelet.html (444 words)

	Adolphe Quételet - Wikipedia
		Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quételet (Gent, 22 februari 1796 – Brussel, 17 februari 1874) was een Belgisch astronoom, wiskundige, statisticus en socioloog.
		Hij was een van de eersten die statistische methoden in de sociale wetenschappen toepaste.
		Quételet is ook bekend vanwege zijn introductie van de body mass index (ook wel Quetelet index genoemd).
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adolphe_Quetelet (281 words)

	Nutrition Today: Adolphe Quetelet : pioneer anthropometrist - 1796-1874
		Adolphe Quetelet (Figure 1), as he was known, was born in February 1796 in Ghent, Belgium, son of Francois Augustin Jacques Henri Quetelet, a municipal worker, and Anne Francoise Vandervelde.
		Quetelet demonstrated that there were patterns in the behavior of groups of people which could be arranged by laws of probability.
		Quetelet was instrumental in founding both the Statistical Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Cambridge in 1833, and within the year, the Statistical Society of London, to which he was elected the first foreign member.
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	Health of the Body Politic
		Quetelet came to think of "average" physical and mental qualities less as abstract concepts than as real properties of particular peoples or races awaiting discovery.
		Quetelet reasoned that in measuring the chest size of one Scots soldier repeatedly, the measurer would register a series of slightly differing measurements clustering around one height.
		This led Quetelet to think that, provided the investigator took care to ensure that they had obtained accurate measurements of individuals belonging to a particular nationality or race, it would be possible to determine any hitherto unknown physical or intellectual aspect of the population under investigation.
	pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/13025/20040119/www.maps.jcu.edu.au/course/hist/stats/quet/quet5.htm (217 words)

	Quetelet was born in Ghent on February the 22th. Right before he was born, on October the first, the belgian provinces, ...
		Quetelet was born in Ghent on February the 22th.
		Quetelet established methods for the comparison and evaluation of the data.
		In "Sur l’homme et le développement de ses facultés, essai d’une physique sociale."(1835) Quetelet presented his conception of the average man as the central value about which measurements of a human trait are grouped according to the normal curve.
	mathsforeurope.digibel.be /Quetelet.htm (1243 words)

	Adolphe Jacques Quetelet Biography / Biography of Adolphe Jacques Quetelet World of Sociology Biography
		Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet was one of the individuals most responsible in the ninteenth century for the quantification of in the physical and social sciences.
		In 1819 he was the first person to receive a doctorate from the University of Ghent for a dissertation on conic, and in the same year he moved to Brussels to take the chair of mathematics at the Athenaeum.
		The law of large became the central principle of all science for Quetelet, and at the very least that encouraged him to promote data-gathering in every field.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-adolphe-jacques-quetelet-soc (730 words)

	Adolphe Quetelet -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Quetelet received a doctorate in (A science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement) mathematics in 1819 from the (Click link for more info and facts about University of Ghent) University of Ghent.
		Shortly thereafter, the young man set out to convince government officials and private donors to build an astronomical observatory in (The capital and largest city of Belgium; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Brussels; he succeeded in 1828.
		Principal among these, in terms of influence over later (Click link for more info and facts about public health) public health agendas, was Quetelet's establishment of a simple measure for classifying people's weight relative to an ideal weight for their height.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ad/adolphe_quetelet.htm (386 words)

	Resources on Adolphe Quetelet, School of Information, The Universityof Texas at Austin
		Adolphe Quetelet, as he is generally known, had an impressively wide range of interests as a scientist, teacher, and administrator.
		An extended discussion of Quetelet and his work, emphasizing his activities in the field of statistics, is provided by the doctoral dissertation, Adolphe Quetelet as Statistician, of Frank H. Hankins (1877-1970) at Columbia University.
		Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874), Engin A. Sungur, Professor of Statistics, University of Minnesota, Morris
	www.gslis.utexas.edu /~wyllys/QueteletResources (894 words)

	Historische hoogtepunten van grafische verwerking: Quetelet
		Quetelet, van oorsprong wis- en sterrenkundige, begon zich te interesseren voor de statistiek, en dan vooral de sociale statistiek.
		In een andere grafiek (zie hiernaast) maakte Quetelet een vergelijking tussen het aantal geboorten, sterftes en huwelijken in de verschillende Nederlandse provincies (waar in 1827 ook België nog onder viel).
		Quetelet was ook de initiatiefnemer van het eerste internationale Statistische Congres, dat in 1853 in Brussel werd gehouden.
	www.fi.uu.nl /wiskrant/artikelen/hist_grafieken/quetelet/quetelet.html (499 words)

	Quetelet
		Adolphe Quetelet received his first doctorate in 1819 from Ghent for a dissertation on the theory of
		Influenced by Laplace and Fourier, Quetelet was the first to use the normal curve other than as an error law.
		The internationally used measue of obesity is the Quetelet index, sometimes also called the Body mass index (BMI).
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Quetelet.html (278 words)

	Metroactive Features \| Techsploits
		Borrowing a premise called the law of error from astronomy, Quetelet asserted that the more human specimens you measure, the less your margin of error will be in determining what is truly normal.
		Quetelet's work revolutionized the emerging field of population studies, affecting everything from criminology to evolutionary biology.
		He was, for example, responsible for encouraging a young French police officer, Alphonse Bertillon, to measure fanatically the ears, legs, fingers and skulls of thousands of criminals to develop, in 1882, the world's first database devoted to identity tracking.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/03.06.03/work-0310.html (771 words)

	Adolphe Quetelet
		Adolphe Quetelet s Research on the Propensity for Crime at Different Ages
		Shortly thereafter, the young man set out to convince government officials and private donors to build an astronomical observatory in Brussels; he succeeded in 1828.The new science of probability and statistics was mainly used in astronomy at the time, to get a handle on measurement errors with the method of least squares.
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	Kohler Biographies
		Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (1796-1874) was born in Ghent, Belgium.
		As president of the latter, Quetelet did much to inspire the creation of statistical bureaus all over Europe and labored unstintingly to promote internationally uniform methods and terminology in data collection and presentation.
		These are the causes we seek to grasp, and when we do know them, we shall be able to ascertain their effects in social matters, just as we ascertain effects from causes in the physical sciences.
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	Quetelet, Adolphe -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Quetelet founded (1828) and directed the Royal Observatory in Brussels, served as perpetual secretary of the Belgian Royal Academy (1834–74), and organized the first International Statistical Congress (1853).
		In trying to discover through statistics the causes of antisocial acts, Quetelet conceived of the idea of relative propensity to crime of specific age groups.
		The reputed “father” of this criminological method is the Belgian astronomer Adolphe Quetelet, who...
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	Quetelet, Adolphe -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		in full Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet Belgian mathematician, astronomer, statistician, and sociologist known for his application of statistics and probability theory to social phenomena.
		Often serving as the initial step in any research and regarded by some researchers, perhaps incorrectly, as the one and only reliable technique, the collection and interpretation of statistics for social and criminological purposes began in Europe early in the 19th century.
		Franco-Swiss novelist and political figure Benjamin Constant was the author of Adolphe (1816), a forerunner of the modern psychological novel.
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	Quetelet, Adolphe -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He is known for his application of statistics and the theory of probability to social phenomena.
		In Sur l'homme (1835) and L'Anthropométrie (1871) he developed the notion of the homme moyen, the statistically “average man.” A founder of quantitative social science, he was nonetheless widely criticized for the crudeness of his methodology.
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	Adolphe Quetelet
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		The utility of body mass index as a measure of body fatness in children and adolescents: differences by race and gender.
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