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Item specifics
- Condition
- Subject
- History & Philosophy, Probability & Statistics / General, History
- ISBN
- 9780674836013
- Subject Area
- Mathematics, Science
- Publication Name
- Statistics on the Table : the History of Statistical concepts and Methods
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.6 in
- Item Weight
- 32.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674836014
ISBN-13
9780674836013
eBay Product ID (ePID)
472132
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Statistics on the Table : the History of Statistical concepts and Methods
Publication Year
1999
Subject
History & Philosophy, Probability & Statistics / General, History
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Mathematics, Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
32.7 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-013719
Reviews
[This book's] title comes from a letter written to the London Times in 1910 by the statistician Karl Pearson, exhorting critics of one of his studies to set aside mere opinions and put their 'statistics on the table.' Stigler uses this and other stories to relate the history of his subject, describing along the way the idiosyncratic individuals who have brought logic and mathematical rigor to a frequently confusing area of analysis. The reader who is not alarmed by the occasional graph or simple equation will find this a penetrating and entertaining account., In Statistics on the Table , statistician and historian of science Stephen M. Stigler collects and revises 22 of his scholarly and often witty essays from the past 25 years reflecting the combination of detective work and statistical thinking that characterize his research., In Statistics on the Table, statistician and historian of science Stephen M. Stigler collects and revises 22 of his scholarly and often witty essays from the past 25 years reflecting the combination of detective work and statistical thinking that characterize his research., [This is] a lively and controversial history...well captured in the second major book on the history of statistics by Stephen M. Stigler...In reading this collection, I was struck with the amount of scholarship and thought that went into each of the essays and with the liveliness and wit of the author's writing style., Stephen Stigler's 1986 book The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900 was greeted with enthusiasm by both staticians and historians for its penetrating overview of developments in probabilistically oriented statistics before 1900. This new volume, too, will be of interest to both statisticians and historians...What is the same in this book-or, indeed, even better-is the sparkling and witty style...This book should without question have a place on the bookshelf of every person interested in the history of statistics., A well-selected collection of 22 essays--some involving major central mathematical ideas, others of a more popular nature--that vividly explore a number of interesting topics about a subject with so many diverse applications., Mainstream statistical topics (e.g. maximum likelihood, degrees of freedom, regression toward the mean) and various statistical writers (particularly Karl Pearson, Jevons, Edgeworth, Galton, Bayes, Gauss and Cauchy) are discussed, as well as some historical curiosities...Any biometrician should find plenty in it to fascinate, enlighten and entertain., 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., If you have an interest in the history of statistics and also history in relationship to statistics, you will want this book. The standard for scholarship within the statistical community has never been any higher than it is here.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
519.5/09
Table Of Content
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Statistics and Social Science Karl Pearson and the Cambridge Economists The Average Man is 167 Years Old Jevons as Statistician Jevons on the King-Davenant Law of Demand Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Statistician 2. Galtonian Ideas 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 3. Some Seventeenth-Century Explorers Apollo Mathematicus The Dark Ages of Probability John Craig and the Probability of History 4. Questions of Discovery Stigler's Law of Eponymy Who Discovered Bayee's Theorem? 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 5. Questions of Standards Statistics and Standards The Trial of the Pyx Normative terminology with W. H. Kruskal References Credits Index
Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
QA276.15.S755 1999
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