developed what he called "social physics". Quetelet himself never intended for the index, then called the Quetelet Index, to be used as a means of medical assessment...

accent as Quételet. He also founded the science of anthropometry and developed the body mass index (BMI) scale, originally called the Quetelet Index. His work...

glomerular filtration rate (GFR); The Quetelet index uses a somewhat modified form of the BSA; The cardiac index is a measure of cardiac output divided...

the 19th century by the Belgian statistician and anthropometrist Adolphe Quetelet. BMI is an accurate reflection of body fat percentage in the majority of...

curve describing fecundity as a function of age. He also developed the Quetelet Index. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth published "On Methods of Ascertaining Variations...

1826 by King William I of the Netherlands under the impulse of Adolphe Quetelet. It was home to a 100 cm (39 in) diameter aperture Zeiss reflector in the...

the University of Liège (Belgium). Morren was a student of Adolphe Quetelet. Quetelet made plant phenological observations at the Royal Observatory of Belgium...

Legendre (1805) and Gauss (1809) for the prediction of planetary movement. Quetelet was responsible for making the procedure well-known and for using it extensively...

Merton, R.K McDonald, R.M Newburn, T Ohlin, L Park, R.E Persson, L.G.W Quetelet, A Reiss, A Ross, J.I. Semerari, A Sherman, L.W Sutherland, E Sutton, M...

adjusting the exponential growth model, under the guidance of Adolphe Quetelet. Verhulst first devised the function in the mid 1830s, publishing a brief...

sub-schools study the spatial distribution of crimes and offenders (see Adolphe Quetelet, who discovered that crimes rates are relatively constant, and the Chicago...

(with Legendre). Used loss functions and maximum-likelihood estimation Quetelet, Adolphe Belgian 1796 1874 Pioneered the use of probability and statistics...

subcultures, or low levels of education can predispose people to crime. Adolphe Quetelet used data and statistical analysis to study the relationship between crime...

appropriated by others, most notably the Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet. Comte endeavored to unify history, psychology, and economics through the...

physics", but that term had been appropriated by others, notably by Adolphe Quetelet. The most important thing to determine was the natural order in which the...

used the terms middle-most value in 1869 and the medium in 1880. Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874), another important founder of statistics, introduced the notion...

theory included Laplace, Sylvestre Lacroix (1816), Littrow (1833), Adolphe Quetelet (1853), Richard Dedekind (1860), Helmert (1872), Hermann Laurent (1873)...

no physical grooves, but instead a periodic modulation of the refractive index within the gel. This removes much of the surface scattering effects typically...

Lambert Murphy (1885–1954), American tenor Lambert Quetelet (1796–1874), alternate name of Adolphe Quételet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician...

originating from the father of social statistics, Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet. The belief was passed down through generations being generally accepted...

statistical approach, influenced heavily by Adolphe Quetelet's "social physics". Unlike Quetelet, however, Galton did not exalt the "average man" but...

/Germany/Switzerland – Atomic force microscope Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874), France/Belgium – Body mass index (BMI) Jacob Rabinow (1910–1999), U.S. – Magnetic...

Surinamese botanist – quassia. Adolphe Quetelet, Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician, sociologist - Quetelet rings Antoine Quinquet, French pharmacist...

François Verhulst in the 1830s and 1840s, under the guidance of Adolphe Quetelet; see Logistic function § History for details. In his earliest paper (1838)...

article, Keys and his coauthors promoted[citation needed] Adolphe Quetelet's body mass index (BMI) as "preferable over other indices of relative weight on...

information on asymptotically normal posterior modes. 1835 – Adolphe Quetelet's Treatise on Man introduces social science statistics and the concept of...

term would be appropriated by others such as Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet. Henri de Saint-Simon published Physiologie sociale in 1813, devoting much...

cyclist. 86) Adolphe Quételet, (1796–1874) astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist. Developed the body mass index scale. 87) Gaston Roelants...

author profile page at the ACM Digital Library Pat Hanrahan publications indexed by Google Scholar Pat Hanrahan at IMDb 2019 AM Turing Award Recipients...

Institute in Brussels; awarded the 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874 in Brussels), astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist;...