John Graunt (24 April 1620 – 18 April 1674) has been regarded as the founder of demography. Graunt was one of the first demographers, and perhaps the first... 15 KB (1,710 words) - 07:16, 26 April 2024 |
Duke of Orléans, third son of King Henry IV of France (d. 1660) 1620 – John Graunt, English demographer and statistician (d. 1674) 1706 – Giovanni Battista... 42 KB (4,219 words) - 17:17, 1 May 2024 |
(lawyer) Jørgen Pedersen Gram (actuary) Hermann Grassmann (school teacher) John Graunt (haberdasher) George Green (miller) Aubrey de Grey (gerontologist) André-Michel... 6 KB (514 words) - 19:11, 8 June 2023 |
this figure, and the best contemporary count comes from the work of John Graunt (1620–1674), who was one of the earliest Fellows of the Royal Society... 46 KB (6,355 words) - 12:05, 11 March 2024 |
Close Rolls, 35 Ed. 1. m6d Calendar of Patent Rolls, 13 Ed. 1.ml8d. Graunt, John; Petty, William (1662), Natural and political observations mentioned... 13 KB (1,491 words) - 12:18, 16 November 2023 |
advance came in 1662 from a London draper, the father of demography, John Graunt, who showed that there were predictable patterns of longevity and death... 33 KB (3,817 words) - 09:51, 6 January 2024 |
1650 – Simonds d'Ewes, English lawyer and politician (b. 1602) 1674 – John Graunt, English demographer and statistician (b. 1620) 1689 – George Jeffreys... 42 KB (3,998 words) - 11:08, 30 April 2024 |
disease. Epidemiology entered a more systematic phase with the work of John Graunt, who in 1662 tried to quantify mortality in London using a statistical... 11 KB (1,214 words) - 20:29, 9 March 2024 |
centuries and is not morbid humor in response to the fire. In 1661–1662, John Graunt, in his work on the Bills of Mortality for London (published by the Royal... 7 KB (792 words) - 08:08, 15 April 2024 |
risk management was being developed. In 1662, a London draper named John Graunt showed that there were predictable patterns of longevity and death in... 62 KB (5,770 words) - 12:30, 28 January 2024 |
earliest documented work on life expectancy was done in the 1660s by John Graunt, Christiaan Huygens, and Lodewijck Huygens. The longest verified lifespan... 104 KB (10,673 words) - 20:20, 9 May 2024 |
publications by William Petty (and John Graunt), the general introduction to the life and work of Petty and Graunt, and the short introductions to the... 16 KB (1,572 words) - 16:39, 4 February 2024 |
and Political Observations Made upon the Bills of Mortality (1662) by John Graunt, which contains a primitive form of life table. Among the study's findings... 43 KB (5,052 words) - 13:40, 2 May 2024 |
to this science. The birth of statistics is often dated to 1662, when John Graunt, along with William Petty, developed early human statistical and census... 62 KB (7,618 words) - 05:53, 21 February 2024 |
Charles Henry Hull (section Graunt and Petty) Natural and Political Observations upon the Bills of Mortality. By Capt. John Graunt. The Fifth Edition. London, 1676. p. 314-345 Sir William Petty's Quantulumcunque... 10 KB (1,117 words) - 19:58, 12 September 2023 |
of Natural and Political Observations upon the Bills of Mortality by John Graunt. Early applications of statistical thinking revolved around the needs... 78 KB (8,812 words) - 14:47, 15 April 2024 |
case was in 17th-century London, where the first proper demographer, John Graunt, failed by just five years to see the last recorded death from plague... 56 KB (6,272 words) - 17:31, 7 April 2024 |
St. John the Baptist and the Spencer coat of arms, now in a south window of the chancel, in memory of his father. Spencer married Isabella Graunt, daughter... 8 KB (827 words) - 20:13, 14 April 2024 |
of the life-table for Breslau, which followed more primitive work by John Graunt, is now seen as a major event in the history of demography. The Royal... 48 KB (5,670 words) - 20:06, 7 May 2024 |
economic statistician", as Richard Stone calls him, came a generation after John Graunt and William Petty and continued their work. Their work was mainly published... 10 KB (1,255 words) - 00:03, 2 January 2024 |