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Harvard University Press

Chapter Title: Table of Contents

Book Title: Statistics on the Table


Book Subtitle: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods
Book Author(s): Stephen M. Stigler
Published by: Harvard University Press. (1999)
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Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

I. Statistics and Social Science


1 Karl Pearson and the Cambridge Economists 13
2 The Average Man Is 168 Years Old 51
3 Jevons as Statistician 66
4 Jevons on the King-Davenant Law of Demand 80
5 Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Statistician 87

II. Galtonian Ideas


6 Galton and Identification by Fingerprints 131
7 Stochastic Simulation in the Nineteenth Century 141
8 The History of Statistics in 1933 157
9 Regression toward the Mean 173
10 Statistical Concepts in Psychology 189

III. Some Seventeenth-Century Explorers


11 Apollo Mathematicus 203
12 The Dark Ages of Probability 239
13 John Craig and the Probability of History 252

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viii Contents

IV. Questions of Discovery


14 Stigler’s Law of Eponymy 277
15 Who Discovered Bayes’s Theorem? 291
16 Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, and Maximum Likelihood 302
17 Gauss and the Invention of Least Squares 320
18 Cauchy and the Witch of Agnesi 332
19 Karl Pearson and Degrees of Freedom 338

V. Questions of Standards
20 Statistics and Standards 361
21 The Trial of the Pyx 383
22 Normative Terminology
with W. H. Kruskal 403

References 433
Credits 477
Index 479

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