Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods

Stigler, Stephen M.

ISBN 10: 0674836014 / ISBN 13: 9780674836013

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1999

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0674836014
• ISBN-13: 9780674836013
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: good

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Inhaltsangabe

This collection of essays examines in detail the history of some of the concepts involved in bringing statistical argument "to the table", and some of the pitfalls that have been encountered. Topics range from 17th century medicine and blood circulation to the meter of Virgil's poetry.

Críticas

Stigler's useful, readable, and valuable book, with its numerous illuminating illustrations and plentiful insights, is an authoritative and definitive work in the early development of mathematical statistics, and a delightful examination in witty detail of the contributions of Gauss, Laplace, deMoivre, Bayes, Galton, Lexis, James Bernoulli, Quetelet, Edgeworth, and others. With humor and conviction, Stigler describes vividly the events leading to the emergence of statistical concepts and methods.--D. V. Chopra "Choice "