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Basic Statistics for Economists
In its modern understanding, the word “statistics” was first used by German
scientist Gottfried Achenwall who borrowed this word from the Italian
language. During the Renaissance, a special course on the knowledge of
policy was given the name ragione di stato or diciplina de statu and widely
used in Italy. The words stato and statu mean “state” and are the origin of
the German word Staat and the English word state. People dealing with
policy matters and who were experts on matters related to other countries
were called statista. In the seventeenth century, the phrase diciplina
statistica (the discipline of statistics) was quite well known in Germany.
Achenwall, transformed the adjectival use of statistica into a noun form and
introduced the word Statistica, which referred to knowledge needed by
merchants, politicians, the military, and the intelligentsia.
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