Ted Porter 四本重要的統計學史和傳記。 Statistics on the table : the history of statistical concepts and methods / Stephen M. Stigler

書名	Statistics on the table : the history of statistical concepts and methods / Stephen M. Stigler
主要作者	Stigler, Stephen M
出版項	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999 館藏地 索書號 條碼 狀態 說明 總圖4F科 技資料區 QA276.15 S755 1999 [鄰 近架位館藏] 2129598 到期 09-13-10 稽核項 ix, 488 p. : ill. ; 25 cm 附註 Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-475) and index 內容 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 -- 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 -- Apollo Mathematicus -- The dark ages of probability -- John Craig and the probability of history -- Stigler's law of eponymy -- Who discovered Bayes's Theorum? -- 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 -- Statistics and standards -- The trial of the Pyx -- Normative terminology / with W.H. Kruskal ISBN/價格 0674836014 (alk. paper) 標題 Mathematical statistics -- History Congratulations to longtime PUP author Theodore (Ted) Porter, who has been honored with the 2023 Sarton Medal, the highest honor given by the History of Science Society (HSS)! The award is given annually to an outstanding historian of science in acknowledgement of lifetime scholarly achievement in the field. Read more: https://hubs.ly/Q01Xb7L90  #HistoryOfScience #SartonMedal