Statistics on the Table The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods

Name: Statistics on the Table The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods
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ISBN: 9780674009790

ISBN-10: 0674009797

ISBN-13: 9780674009790

Edition: 1999

Authors: Stephen M. Stigler

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This lively collection of essays examines in witty 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. The topics range from seventeenth-century medicine and the circulation of blood, to the cause of the Great Depression and the effect of the California gold discoveries of 1848 upon price levels, to the determinations of the shape of the Earth and the speed of light, to the meter of Virgil's poetry and the prediction of the Second Coming of Christ. The title essay tells how the statistician Karl Pearson came to issue the challenge to put "statistics on the table" to the economists Marshall,…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 1.38" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Stephen M. Stigler is Professor of Statistics at the University of Chicago.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Statistics and Social Science



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



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



Some Seventeenth-Century Explorers



Apollo Mathematicus



The Dark Ages of Probability



John Craig and the Probability of History



Questions of Discovery



Stigler's Law of Eponymy



Who Discovered Bayes'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



Questions of Standards



Statistics and Standards



The Trial of the Pyx



Normative Terminology



References


Credits


Index