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Stefano Franscini

b. 23 October 1796 d. 19 July 1857

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Statisticians of the Centuries

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Founding father of Swiss official statistics, Franscini was both politician and scientist. He was active in the establishment of Switzerland’s national identity and served as Federal Minister of the Interior. He is especially remembered for his advocacy of statistical information as an inherent ingredient of the democratic process.

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  1. Carlo Malaguerra
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  1. School of Mathematical Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

    C. C. Heyde

  2. Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA

    C. C. Heyde

  3. School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia

    E. Seneta

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Malaguerra, C. (2001). Stefano Franscini. In: Heyde, C.C., Seneta, E., Crépel, P., Fienberg, S.E., Gani, J. (eds) Statisticians of the Centuries. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_28

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