A history of mathematical statistics from 1750 to 1930 / Anders Hald
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- 398122
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- Author:
- Hald, Anders, 1913-
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- New York : Wiley, c1998
- xvii, 795 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0471179124
- Series:
- Wiley series in probability and statistics. Texts and references section
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- Machine derived contents note: Direct Probability 1750
- 1805.
- Some Results and Tools in Probability Theory (By Bernoulli, de Moivre, and Laplace).
- The Distribution of the Arithmetic Mean, 1756
- 1781.
- Chance or Design: Tests of Significance.
- Theory of Errors and Methods of Estimation.
- Fitting of Equations to Data, 1750
- 1805.
- Inverse Probability By Bayes And Laplace, With Comments On Later Developments.
- Induction and Probability: The Philosophical Background.
- Bayes, Price, and the Essay, 1764
- 1765.
- Equiprobability, Equipossibility, and Inverse Probability.
- Laplace's Applications of the Principle of Inverse Probability in 1774.
- Laplace's General Theory of Inverse Probability.
- The Equiprobability Model and the Inverse Probability Model for Games of Chance.
- Laplace's Methods of Asymptotic Expansion, 1781 and 1785.
- Laplace's Analysis of Binomially Distributed Observations.
- Laplace's Theory of Statistical Prediction.
- Laplace's Sample Survey of the Population of France and the Distribution of the Ratio Estimator.
- The Normal Distribution, The Method Of Least Squares, And The Central Limit Theorem.
- Gauss And Laplace, 1809
- 1828.
- The Early History of the Central Limit Theorem, 1810
- 1853.
- Derivations of the Normal Distribution as a Law of Error.
- Gauss's Linear Normal Model and the Method of Least Squares, 1809 and 1811.
- Laplace's Large-Sample Theory of Linear Estimation, 1811
- 1827.
- Gauss's Theory of Linear Unbiased Minimum Variance Estimation, 1823
- 1828.
- Selected Topics In Estimation Theory 1830
- 1930.
- On Error and Estimation Theory, 1830
- 1890.
- Bienaym?'s Proof of the Multivariate Central Limit Theorem and His Defense of Laplace's Theory of Linear Estimation, 1852 and 1853.
- Cauchy's Method for Determining the Number of Terms to be Included in the Linear Model and for Estimating the Parameters, 1835
- 1853.
- Orthogonalization and Polynomial Regression.
- Statistical Laws in the Social and Biological Sciences, Poisson, Quetelet, and Galton, 1830
- 1890.
- Sampling Distributions under Normality.
- Fisher's Theory of Estimation, 1912
- 1935, and His Immediate Precursors.
- References.
- Index.
- Notes:
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- "A Wiley-Interscience publication."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 741-776) and index.
- Subject:
- Mathematical statistics -- History
- Also Titled:
- Mathematical statistics from 1750 to 1930
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