STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Edited by E S Pearson and M G Kendall (QUARTO S 0.9 STU)
CONTENTS
- Dicing and gaming by F N David
- The beginnings of probability calculus by M G Kendall
- A Note on playing cards by M G Kendall
- The Book of Fate by M G Kendall
- Random mechanisms in Talmudic literature by A M Hasofer
- Where shall the history of statistics begin? by M G Kendall
- Medical statistics from Graunt to Farr by M Greenwood
- The principle of the arithmetic mean by R L Plackett
- A note on the early solutions of the problem of the duration of play by A R Thatcher
- An essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances by T Bayes (with a biographical note by G A Barnard)
- The most probable choice between several discrepant observations and the formulation therefrom of the most likely induction by D Bernoulli (with observations by L Euler and an introductory note by M G Kendall)
- A note on the history of the graphical presentation of data by E Royston
- Thomas Young on coincidences by M G Kendall
- Notes on the history of correlation by Karl Pearson
- The historical development of the Gauss linear model by H L Seal
- On the early history of the law of large numbers by O B Sheynin
- A note on the early statistical study of literary style by C B Williams
- De Morgan and the statistical study of literary style by R D Lord
- Isaac Todhunter's History of the Mathematical Theory of Probability by M G Kendall
- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, 1845-1926 by M G Kendall
- Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, 1860-1926 by Karl Pearson
- Some incidents in the early history of biometry and statistics 1890-94 by E S Pearson
- Some reflexions on continuity in the development of mathematical statistics, 1885-1920 by E S Pearson
- William Sealy Gosset, 1876-1937
(1) "Student" as a man by L McMullen
(2) "Student" as a statistician by E S Pearson - Some early correspondence between W S Gosset, R A Fisher and Karl Pearson with notes and comments by E S Pearson
- George Udny Yule, 1871-1951 by M G Kendall
- Karl Pearson 1857 (1957). A centenary lecture delivered at University College London by J B S Haldane
- Ronald Aylmer Fisher, 1890-1962 by M G Kendall
- The Neyman-Pearson story: 1926-1934. Historical sidelights on an episode in Anglo-Polish collaboration
STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
Numbers I to XXI appear in the first volume as papers with the following Arabic numbers:
I - 1; II - 2; III - 12; IV - 17; V - 3; VI - 9; VII - 8; VIII - 18; IX - 10; X - 6; XI - 11; XII - 4; XIII - 19; XIV - 22; XV - 15; XVI - 5; XVII - 23; XVIII - 13; XIX - 20; XX - 25; XXI - 16.