The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
069102409X
ISBN 13
9780691024097
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Publication Year
1988
Publisher
Pages
348
Description
Emphasizing the debt of science to nonspecialist intellectuals, Theodore Porter describes in detail the nineteenth-century background that produced the burst of modern statistical innovation of the early 1900s. Statistics arose as a study of society--the science of the statist--and the pioneering statistical physicists and biologists, Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Galton, each introduced statistical models by pointing to analogies between his discipline and social science. - from Amzon
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