Statistics on the table

The history of statistical concepts and methods

Stephen M. Stigler

490 pages, parution le 10/10/2002 (3^eme édition)

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Résumé

This lively 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 topics range from seventeenth-century medicine and the circulation of blood, to the cause of the Great Depression and the effect of the California gold discoveries of 1848 upon price levels, to the determinations of the shape of the Earth and the speed of light, to the meter of Virgil's poetry and the prediction of the Second Coming of Christ.

"Stigler shows how the desire to present data in compact, unbiased and accessible ways motivated the founding figures of his discipline. He also applies the motto to himself, setting out the data that bear on his own historical problems and telling how he came by them. His focus is on figures who now seem minor; some you would never encounter without Stigler as a guide. Even when he turns to the famous, he directs us to the margins of their careers. Yet tucked away at the end of many of these pieces is a gently stated but , powerful methodological moral for our times."

Contents

I- 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
II- 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
III- Some Seventeenth-Century Explorers
Apollo Mathematicus
The Dark Ages of Probability
John Craig and the Probability of History
IV- Questions of Discovery
Stigler's Law of Eponymy
Who Discovered Bayes'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
V- Questions of Standards
Statistics and Standards
The Trial of the Pyx
Normative terminology

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Harvard University Press
Auteur(s)	Stephen M. Stigler
Parution	10/10/2002
Édition	3^eme édition
Nb. de pages	490
Format	15,5 x23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	788g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780674009790
ISBN13	978-0-674-00979-0