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Statistics is a very old discipline, which originated from the study of social and economic problems. It is generally believed that its theoretical research began in Aristotle's time in ancient Greece, but its systematic research and development as a discipline was gradually carried out in Europe in the middle of17th century.
In the long history of development, the discussion on the basic theory of statistics has formed ethnic trend school, political arithmetic school, mathematical statistics school and social statistics school. The formation of any discipline school is closely related to the life and work background, knowledge structure and thinking method of its representatives. In the process of learning, we can find the differences and differences in the understanding of statistics in various schools.
National trend school, also known as narrative school, was born in Germany in the18th century. Because this school mainly describes the major issues of the country in words, it is called the narrative school. Its main representatives are Hailmann Conrin 2, 1606- 168 1) and G. Achenwall (1714-1772). Kang Ling was the first person to teach the knowledge that political activists should have at Tete University in Helms.
Ahenwall offers a course on "National Studies" at the University of G? ttingen. His main work is "Outline of Ethnic Studies in Modern European Countries", which is about "the salient issues of a country or most countries". He mainly used the method of comparative analysis to study and understand the country's organization, territory, population, resources, wealth and national strength, and compared the strength of various countries to serve the German monarchy. Because "national conditions" and "statistics" have the same meaning in a foreign language.
Later, it was officially named "Statistics". In the comparative analysis of national conditions, this school emphasizes the explanation of the essence of things, but does not pay attention to quantitative comparison and quantitative calculation, but it lays the economic theoretical foundation for the development of statistics. However, with the development of capitalist market economy, the calculation and analysis of things become more and more important. Later, this school was divided into the chart school and the comparison school.