The history of quantiative method in historical research

Abstract

1. Numbers in writing history (1)ancient history v.s. modern history (2)general history v.s. specific history (in the case of historical demography) 2. Why historians need statistics? (1)Topic-oriented (2)Data-oriented 3. The problems of using statistics in historical analysis (1)attitude of historians ( professional tradition) (2)relialibility and continuity of data (3)problems in sampling