The history of statistics: the measurement of uncertainty before 1900. Stephen M. Stigler

The history of statistics: the measurement of uncertainty before 1900



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The history of statistics: the measurement of uncertainty before 1900 Stephen M. Stigler ebook djvu
Publisher: Belknap Press
Language: English
Page: 427
ISBN: 0674403401, 9780674403406

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The book is a pleasure to read: the prose sparkles; the protagonists are vividly drawn; the illustrations are handsome and illuminating; the insights plentiful and sharp. This will remain the definitive work on the early development of mathematical statistics for some time to come. --Lorraine J. Daston (Journal of Modern History )An exceptionally searching, almost loving, study of the relevant inspirations and aberrations of its principal characters James Bernoulli, de Moivre, Bayes, Laplace, Gauss, Quetelet, Lexis, Galton, Edgeworth, and Pearson, not neglecting a grand supporting cast...The definitive record of an intellectual Golden Age, an overoptimistic climb to a height not to be maintained. --M. Stone (Science )One is tempted to say that the history of statistics in the nineteenth century will be associated with the name Stigler. --Morris Kline (New York Times Book Review )In this tour de force of careful scholarship, Stephen Stigler has laid bare the people, ideas, and events underlying the development of statistics...He has written an important and wonderful book...Sometimes Stigler's prose is so evocative it is almost poetic. --Howard Wainer (Contemporary Psychology )

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Stigler's book exhibits a rare combination of mastery of technical materials, sensitivity to conceptual milieu, and near exhaustive familiarity with primary sources. An exemplary study --Lorraine Daston



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