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Author:
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PEARSON, E. S. & M. G. KENDALL (editors)
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Title:
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Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability. Volume 1
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Description:
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Book is Fine in no dust jacket. Blue cloth binding, second edition,
Charles Griffin & Co, London, 1978. Griffin Books on Statistics. excellent tight clean crisp copy in all respects, reprinting 29 papers in facsimile. pp. 134-53 is Thomas Bayes's 'An Essay Toward Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances' (Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London, 53, 370-418, 1763). Pp. 47-120 is Major Greenwood, 'Medical Statistics from Graunt to Farr', Fitzpatrick Lectures, 1941, 1943, reprinted from Biometrika 32-33, 1943 (the 1948 first edition in book form is Garrison-Morton 1716, a scarce title). 'A note on the history of the graphical presentation of data' which outlines the work of William Playfair on this subject. There are also numerous biographical papers, on De Morgan, F. Y. Edgeworth, W. F. R. Weldon (pp. 323-54, by E. S. Pearson, divided into two parts, 1890-94 and 1885-1920), W. S. Gosset (a.k.a. 'Student'), Yule, Karl Pearson, R. A. Fisher, the Neyman-Pearson collaboration, etc. 491pp.
Size 4to ISBN: 0852641931 keywords: Statistics Probability
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