History of Statistics The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1900

Name: History of Statistics The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1900
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ISBN: 9780674403413

ISBN-10: 067440341X

ISBN-13: 9780674403413

Edition: 1986

Authors: Stephen M. Stigler

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This magnificent book is the first comprehensive history of statistics from its beginnings around 1700 to its emergence as a distinct and mature discipline around 1900. Stephen M. Stigler shows how statistics arose from the interplay of mathematical concepts and the needs of several applied sciences including astronomy, geodesy, experimental psychology, genetics, and sociology. He addresses many intriguing questions: How did scientists learn to combine measurements made under different conditions? And how were they led to use probability theory to measure the accuracy of the result? Why were statistical methods used successfully in astronomy long before they began to play a significant…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/1/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 1.628

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



Introduction



The Development of Mathematical Statistics in Astronomy and Geodesy before 1827



Least Squares and the Combination of Observations Legendre in 1805


Cotes's Rule Tobias Mayer and the Libration of the Moon Saturn, Jupiter, and Enter Laplace's Rescue of the Solar System


the Figure of the Earth Laplace and the Method of Situation



Legendre and the Invention of Least Squares



Probabilists and the Measurement of Uncertainty


Jacob Bernoulli De Moivre and the Expanded Binomial Bernoulli's Failure De Moivre's






Inverse Probability Laplace and Inverse Probability


The Choice of Means


The Deduction of a Curve of Errors in 1772-1774