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

Stephen M. Stigler is Professor of Statistics at the University of Chicago.

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