cliometrics
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cliometrics /ˌklʌɪə(ʊ)ˈmɛtrɪks/
▶plural noun [treated as sing.] a technique for the interpretation of economic history, based on the statistical analysis of numerical data from population censuses, parish registers, etc.
– derivatives
cliometric adjective,
cliometrician noun.
cliometric adjective,
cliometrician noun.
– origin 1960s (orig. US): from Clio, the Muse of history in Greek and Roman mythology, on the pattern of words such as econometrics.
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