William Petty，founder of political arithmetic / 中华疾病控制杂志

ABSTRACT

@#William Petty ( 1623－1687) was a great 17th－century economist，statistician and one of the founders of the Ｒoyal Society． He put forward the concept of " political arithmetic" and used the method of " number，weight and measurement" to calculate and analyze the population and economic data of a country． His statistical methods laid the foundation for the development of statistics．