| Description |
ix, 488 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-475) and index. |
| Contents |
Karl Pearson and the Cambridge economists -- The average man is 168 years old -- Jevons as statistician -- Jevons on the King-Davenant Law of Demand -- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, statistician -- Galton and identification by fingerprints -- Stochastic simulation in the nineteenth century -- The history of statistics in 1933 -- Regression toward the mean -- Statistical concepts in psychology -- Apollo Mathematicus -- The dark ages of probability -- John Craig and the probability of history -- Stigler's law of eponymy -- Who discovered Bayes's Theorum? -- Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, and maximum likelihood -- Gauss and the invention of least squares -- Cauchy and the witch of Agnesi -- Karl Pearson and degrees of freedom -- Statistics and standards -- The trial of the Pyx -- Normative terminology / with W. H. Kruskal. |
| Subject |
Mathematical statistics -- History.
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| Added Author |
Kruskal, William, 1919-2005.
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| ISBN |
0674836014 (alk. paper) |
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