Statistics on the table : the history of statistical concepts and methods / Stephen M. Stigler.
Statistics on the table : the history of statistical concepts and methods / Stephen M. Stigler.
Statistics on the table : the history of statistical concepts and methods / Stephen M. Stigler.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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T0393157
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English
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488p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
I. Statistics and Social Science. 1. Karl Pearson and the Cambridge Economists. 2. The Average Man Is 168 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...
22. Normative Terminology / Stephen M. Stigler and W. H. Kruskal.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
1999.
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"This collection of essays examines in witty detail the history of some of the concepts involved in bringing statistical argument "to the table" and some of the pitfalls that have been encountered. The title essay tells how the statistician Karl Pearson came to issue the challenge to put "statistics on the table" to the economists Marshall, Keynes,...
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Statistics on the table : the history of statistical concepts and methods / Stephen M. Stigler.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Transferred from N519.509/2.
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T0393157
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0674836014 :
9780674836013 (alk. paper)
0674836014 (alk. paper)
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519.509
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991011877789702626
