The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1900

Harvard University Press: Cambridge (1986)
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Abstract

Stigler shows how statistics arose from the interplay of mathematical concepts and the needs of several applied sciences. His emphasis is upon how methods of probability theory were developed for measuring uncertainty, for reducing uncertainty, and as a conceptual framework for quantitative studies in the social sciences.

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