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

Stephen M. Stigler

(1999年刊行,Harvard University Press,ISBN:0674836014 [hbk] / ISBN:0674009797 [pbk] → 版元ページ



【目次】
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1

I. Statistics and Social Science

1. Karl Pearson and the Cambridge Economists
2. The Average Man is 167 Years Old
3. Jevons as Statistician
4. Jevons on the King-Davenant Law of Demand
5. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Statistician

II. Galtonian Ideas

6. Galton and Identification by Fingerprints
7. Stochastic Simulation in the Nineteenth Century
8. The History of Statistics in 1933
9. Regression toward the Mean
10. Statistical Concepts in Psychology

III. Some Seventeenth-Century Explorers

11. Apollo Mathematicus
12. The Dark Ages of Probability
13. John Craig and the Probability of History

IV. Questions of Discovery

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

V. Questions of Standards

20. Statistics and Standards
21. The Trial of the Pyx
22. Normative terminology [with W. H. Kruskal]

References
Credits
Index