
Statistics on the Table
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Statistics and Social Science
- Chapter 1. Karl Pearson and the Cambridge Economists
- Chapter 2. The Average Man Is 168 Years Old
- Chapter 3. Jevons as Statistician
- Chapter 4. Jevons on the King-Davenant Law of Demand
- Chapter 5. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Statistician
- Part II. Galtonian Ideas
- Chapter 6. Galton and Identification by Fingerprints
- Chapter 7. Stochastic Simulation in the Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 8. The History of Statistics in 1933
- Chapter 9. Regression toward the Mean
- Chapter 10. Statistical Concepts in Psychology
- Part III. Some Seventeenth-Century Explorers
- Chapter 11. Apollo Mathematicus
- Chapter 12. The Dark Ages of Probability
- Chapter 13. John Craig and the Probability of History
- Part IV. Questions of Discovery
- Chapter 14. Stigler's Law of Eponymy
- Chapet 15. Who Discovered Bayes's Theorem?
- Chapter 16. Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, and Maximum Likelihood
- Chapter 17. Gauss and the Invention of Least Squares
- Chapter 18. Cauchy and the Witch of Agnesi
- Chapter 19. Karl Pearson and Degrees of Freedom
- Part V. Questions of Standards
- Chapter 20. Statistics and Standards
- Chapter 21. The Trial of the Pyx
- Chapter 22. Normative Terminology
- References
- Credits
- Index
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