A.-M. Guerry's moral statistics of France: challenges for multivariable spatial analysis

DOI10.1214/07-STS241zbMATH Open1246.91004arXiv0801.4263OpenAlexW3104741959WikidataQ56907143 ScholiaQ56907143MaRDI QIDQ449768FDOQ449768

Michael Friendly

Publication date: 1 September 2012

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Andr'{e}-Michel Guerry's (1833) Essai sur la Statistique Morale de la France was one of the foundation studies of modern social science. Guerry assembled data on crimes, suicides, literacy and other ``moral statistics, and used tables and maps to analyze a variety of social issues in perhaps the first comprehensive study relating such variables. Indeed, the Essai may be considered the book that launched modern empirical social science, for the questions raised and the methods Guerry developed to try to answer them. Guerry's data consist of a large number of variables recorded for each of the d'{e}partments of France in the 1820--1830s and therefore involve both multivariate and geographical aspects. In addition to historical interest, these data provide the opportunity to ask how modern methods of statistics, graphics, thematic cartography and geovisualization can shed further light on the questions he raised. We present a variety of methods attempting to address Guerry's challenge for multivariate spatial statistics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4263

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zbMATH Keywords

biplotcrime mappinghistory of graphicsmoral statisticsmultivariate visualization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of statistics (62-03) History of game theory, economics, and finance (91-03) Mathematical sociology (including anthropology) (91Dxx)

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Uses Software

• plotrix
• Mondrian
• SAS
• heplots
• Guerry

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