Alfred Legoyt

Alfred Legoyt
Born1812
Died1885
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics

Alfred Legoyt (1812–1885)[1] was a French statistician who organised the census of France in 1856, 1861 and 1866.[2] With his access to vital statistics Legoyt was the most important official statistician of France and was the official delegate to the International Statistical Congresses held in different European cities between 1853 and 1876.[3]

  1. ^ Éric Brian; Marie Jaisson (24 July 2007). The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth: A Dialogue between Mathematics, Biology and Sociology. Springer. pp. 75–. ISBN 978-1-4020-6036-6.
  2. ^ Nancy L. Green; Francois Weil (12 March 2007). Citizenship and Those Who Leave: The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation. University of Illinois Press. pp. 120–. ISBN 978-0-252-09141-4.
  3. ^ Aldrich, John (December 2010). "Tales of two Societies – London and Paris 1860–1940" (PDF). Electronic Journal for History of Probability and Statistics. 6 (2): 4–5.