Humanities crest. Center for Researchin Economics and Statistics A joint research unit CNRS, École Polytechnique, GENES, ENSAE Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France. Research areas Economics Statistics Sociology Finance and insurance Key figures 90 Permanent researchers 11 Postdoctoral students 101 PhD students 105 Average number of publications per year > Read more > Read more CREST is an interdisciplinary Center for research on quantitative methods applied to the social sciences. visit CREST website > visit CREST website > It focuses on data, mathematical modeling and the cross-fertilization of theoretical models and empirical evidence to analyze concrete economic and social problems. As such, CREST seeks to achieve the aim expressed by the founding members of the Econometric Society, which is to “promote studies that aim at a unification of the theoretical-quantitative and the empirical-quantitative approach to economic problems and that are penetrated by constructive and rigorous thinking similar to that which has come to dominate in the natural sciences.” (Ragnar Frisch, Econometrica, 1933)