A history of probability and statistics and their applications before 1750

Anders Hald - Collection Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics

600 pages, parution le 14/10/2003

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The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists.

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This is a marvelous book . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in the history of statistics, or in understanding how modern ideas have developed, will find this an invaluable resource.

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The Book and Its Relation to Other Works
A Sketch of the Background in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy
Early Concepts of Probability and Chance
Cardano and Liber de Ludo Aleae, c. 1565
The Foundation of Probability Theory by Pascal and Fermat in 1654
Huygens and De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae, 1657
John Graunt and the Observations Made upon the Bills of Mortality, 1662
The Probabilistic Interpretation of Graunt's Life Table
The Early History of Life Insurance Mathematics
Mathematical Models and Statistical Methods in Astronomy from Hipparchus to Kepler and Galileo
The Newtonian Revolution in Mathematics and Science
Miscellaneous Contributions Between 1657 and 1708
The Great Leap Forward, 1708 - 1718: A Survey
New Solutions to Old Problems, 1708 - 1718
James Bernoulli and Ars Conjectandi, 1713
Bernoulli's Theorem
Tests of Significance Based on the Sex Ratio at Birth and the Binomial Distribution, 1712 - 1713
Montmort and the Essay d'Analyse sur les Jeux de Hazard, 1708 and 1713
The Problem of Coincidences and the Compound Probability Theorem
The Problems of the Duration of Play, 1708-1718
Nicholas Bernoulli
De Moivre and the Doctrine of Chances, 1718, 1738, and 1756
The Problem of the Duration of Play and the Method of Difference Equations
De Moivre's Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution, 1733
The Insurance Mathematics of de Moivre and Simpson, 1725-1756
References
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Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Anders Hald
Collection	Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
Parution	14/10/2003
Nb. de pages	600
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	830g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780471471295
ISBN13	978-0-471-47129-5