Statistics on the Table

This collection of essays examines in 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. Topics range from 17th century medicine and blood circulation to the meter of Virgil's poetry.

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Stephen M. Stigler is Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago.

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the use of DNA in forensic science. Several of the essays are entirely nontechnical; all examine statistical ideas with an ironic eye for their essence and what their history can tell us about current disputes.


Zusammenfassung
This lively collection of essays examines statistical ideas with an ironic eye for their essence and what their history can tell us for current disputes. The topics range from 17th-century medicine and the circulation of blood, to the cause of the Great Depression, to the determinations of the shape of the Earth and the speed of light.

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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Statistics and Social Science Karl Pearson and the Cambridge Economists The Average Man is 167 Years Old Jevons as Statistician Jevons on the King-Davenant Law of Demand Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Statistician 2. Galtonian Ideas 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 3. Some Seventeenth-Century Explorers Apollo Mathematicus The Dark Ages of Probability John Craig and the Probability of History 4. Questions of Discovery Stigler's Law of Eponymy Who Discovered Bayee's Theorem? 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 5. Questions of Standards Statistics and Standards The Trial of the Pyx Normative terminology with W. H. Kruskal References Credits Index

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