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

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Title: Statistics on the Table : The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods
Author: Stephen M. Stigler
ISBN: 8180040224 / 9788180040221
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 488
Publisher: All India Publishers & Distributors
Year: 2010
Availability: Out of Stock
     
 
  • Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I : Statistics and Social Science
Chapter 1 :
Karl Pearson and the Cambridge Economics
Chapter 2 : The Average Man is 168 Years Old
Chapter 3 : Jevons as Statistician
Chapter 4 : Jevons on the King - Davenant Law of Demand
Chapter 5 : Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Statistician

Part II : Galtonian Ideas
Chapter 6 :
Galton and Identification by Fingerprints
Chapter 7 : Stochastic Simulation in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 8 : The History of Statistics in 1933
Chapter 9 : Regression toward the Mean
Chapter 10 : Statistical Concepts in Psychology

Part III : Some Seventeenth-Century Explorers
Chapter 11 :
Apollo Mathematics
Chapter 12 : The Dark Ages of Probability
Chapter 13 : John Craig and the Probability of History

Part IV : Questions of Discovery
Chapter 14 :
Stigler's Law of Eponymy
Chapter 15 : Who Discovered Bayes's Theorem?
Chapter 16 : Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, and Maximum Likelihood
Chapter 17 : Gauss and the Invention of Least Squares
Chapter 18 : Cauchy and the Witch of Agnesi
Chapter 19 : Karl Pearson and Degrees of Freedom

Part V : Questions of Standards
Chapter 20 :
Statistics and Standards
Chapter 21 : The Trial of the Pyx
Chapter 22 : Normative Terminology

References
Credits
Index

 
 
 
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