Title The rise of statistical thinking, 1820-1900 / Theodore M. Porter

Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1986 Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1986 ©1986

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Description xii, 333 pages ; 25 cm Contents The social calculus: Statistics as social science ; The laws that govern chaos ; From nature's urn to the insurance office -- The supreme law of unreason: The errors of art and nature ; Social law and natural science -- The science of uncertainty: Statistical law and human freedom ; Time's arrow and statistical uncertainty in physics and philosophy -- Polymathy and discipline: The mathematics of statistics ; The roots of biometrical statistics Analysis Statistical mathematics 1820-1900 Statistical mathematics, 1820-1900 Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Mathematical statistics -- History. Mathematical statistics -- History. Social sciences -- Statistical methods. LC no. 85043306 ISBN 069102409X 0691084165 9780691024097 9780691084169

Other Titles The rise of statistical thinking, eighteen-twenty to nineteen hundred

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