Statisticians of the centuries /
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| Imprint: | New York : Springer, c2001. |
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| Description: | xii, 500 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4499045 |
Table of Contents:
- Alphabetical Listing of Statisticians
- 16th Century
- Probability Prior to Pascal / David Bellhuse
- 17th Century
- Pierre de Fermat / E. Seneta
- John Graunt / C. C. Heyde
- Blaise Pascal / A. W. F. Edwards
- Christiaan Huygens / Ivo Schneider
- Caspar Neumann / Peter Koch
- Jackob Bernoulli / Ivo Schneider
- John Arbuthnot / David Bellhouse
- 18th Century
- Abraham De Moivre / Ivo Schneider
- Pierre Remond de Montmort / E. Seneta
- Nicolaus Bernoulli / Sandor Csorgo
- Daniel Bernoulli / J. Gani
- Thomas Bayes / D. V. Lindley
- Johann Peter Sussmilch / Jean-Marc Rohrbasser
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon / Yves Ducel and Thierry Martin
- Rogerius Josephous Boscovich / R. W. Farebrother
- D'Alembert / P. Crepel
- Marquis de Condorcet / P. Crepel
- 19th Century
- Pierre-Simon Marquis de Laplace / Hans Fishcher
- Adrien-Marie Legendre / R. W. Farebrother
- William Playfair / Ian Spence and Howard Wainer
- Thomas Robert Malthus / I. Castles
- Sir Frederick Morton Eden / Mervyn Stone
- Carl Friedrich Gauss / O. B. Sheynin
- Simeon-Denis Poisson / Bernard Bru
- Adolphe Quetelet / Jean-Jacques Droesbeke and Francois Jongmans
- Irenee-Jules Bienayme / E. Seneta
- Stefano Franscini / Carlo Malaguerra
- Gustav Theodor Fechner / Michael Heidelberger
- Anton Meyer / M. F. Jozeau
- Antoine Augustin Cournot / Th. Martin
- Augustus De Morgan / Adrian Rice
- William Farr / Michel Dupaquier
- George Boole / Peter Heath and Eugene Seneta
- Florence Nightingale / M. Stone
- Pafnutii Lvovich Chebyshev (or Tchebichef) / E. Seneta
- Francis Galton / R. W. Farebrother
- Joseph Bertrand / Bernard Bru and Francois Jongmans
- Johann Gregor Mendel / Oscar Sheynin
- John Venn / I. Grattan-Guinness
- Simon Newcomb / Peter Guttorp
- William Stanley Jevons / I. Castles
- Wilhelm Lexis / Sebastien Hertz
- Anders Nicolai Kiaer / Ib Thomsen
- Thorvald Nicolai Thiele / Ragnar Norberg
- Francis Amasa Walker / Margo J. Anderson
- Georg von Mayr / Sebastien Hertz
- Pyotr Dimitrievich En'ko / J. Gani
- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth / A. I. Dale
- Vilferdo Federigo Samaso Pareto / Marc Barbut
- 20th Century
- Fedor Andreevich Shcherbina / E. Seneta
- Andrei Andreevich Markov / E. Seneta
- Karl Pearson / Eileen Magnello
- George Handley Knibbs / C. C. Heyde
- Walter Frank Raphael Weldon / Eileen Magnello
- Walter Francis Willcox / Margo J. Anderson
- Irving Fisher / A. Vogt
- Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz / S. Hertz
- Arthur Lyon Bowley / A. I. Dale
- Louis Bachelier / L. Carraro and P. Crepel
- Emile Borel / Bernard Bru
- George Udny Yule / A. W. F. Edwards
- Karoly Jordan / Janos Galambos
- Marian Smoluchowski / E. Seneta
- Aleksander Aleksandrovich Chuprov (or Tschuprow) / E. Seneta
- Ernest Filip Oskar Lundberg / K. Englud and A. Martin-Lof
- William Sealy Gosset / Stephen E. Fienberg and Nicole Lazar
- Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg / G. Elfving
- Anderson Gray McKendrick / J. Gani
- Agner Krarup Erlang / C. C. Heyde
- Maurice Frechet / B. Bru and S. Hertz
- Harold Edwin Hurst / Benoit B. Mandelbrot
- Sergei Natanovich Bernstein / E. Seneta
- Evgenii Evgenievich Slutsky (or Slutskii) / E. Seneta
- George Waddel Snedecor / Alicia L. Carriquiry and Herbert A. David
- Richard von Mises / R. Siegmund-Schultze
- John Maynard Keynes / Rod O'Donnell
- Carrado Gini / Giovanni Maria Giorgi
- Wilhelm Winkler / Alexander Pinwinkler
- Egon Sharpe Pearson / David J. Bartholomew
- Oskar Anderson / Heinrich Strecker and Rosemarie Strecker
- Georges Darmois / Bernard Bru
- Stuart Arthur Rice / Margo J. Anderson
- Ronald Aylmer Fisher / S. L. Zabell
- Walter Andrew Shewhart / Denis Bayart
- Harold Jeffreys / D. V. Lindley
- Emil Julius Gumbel / Sebastien Hertz
- Carlo Emilo Bonferroni / M. E. Dewey and E. Seneta
- Octav Onicescu / Marius Iosifescu
- Frank Wilcoxon / Ralph A. Bradley
- Mikhailo Pylypovych Kravchuk (or Krawtchouk) / E. Seneta
- Felix Pollaczek / J. W. Cohen
- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis / J. K. Ghosh
- Harald Cramer / M. R. Leadbetter
- Jerzy Neyman / Stephen E. Fienberg and Judith M. Tanur
- Ragnar Frisch / O. Bjerkholt
- Harold Hotelling / Ingram Olkin and Allan R. Sampson
- Robert Charles Geary / J. E. Spencer
- Austin Bradford Hill / Peter Armitage
- Edwin James George Pitman / Evan J. Williams
- Joseph Oscar Irwin / Peter Armitage
- Gertrude Mary Cox / R. L. Anderson
- William John Youden / Harry H. Ku and Joan R. Rosenblatt
- W. Edwards Deming / Stephen E. Fienberg and Stephen M. Stigler.
