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- From: jonathan@psych.psy.uq.oz.au (Jonathan Dwyer)
- Subject: Re: Books On The Foundations Of Statistics?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.113052.12581@psych.psy.uq.oz.au>
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 11:30:52 GMT
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- Hi,
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- This is the best book I have found on the foundations of inductive thought
- and probability as used today (in fact I thought it was so good I bought
- my own copy!) :
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- Type of Material: Book
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- LC Call Number: QA276.15 .S75 1986
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- Author: Stigler, Stephen M.
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- Title: The history of statistics : the measurement of uncertainty
- before 1900 / Stephen M. Stigler.
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- Publication Info: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University
- Press, 1986.
- Phys. Description: xvi, 410 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- Notes: Bibliography: p. 374-398.
- Notes: Includes index.
- Subjects: Statistics--History.
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- LC Card Number: 85030499
- ISBN: 0-674-40340-1 (alk. paper)
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- Also, I have not read this one, but it came up when I tried to find Stigler:
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- Type of Material: Book
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- LC Call Number: QA276.15 .P44 1978
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- Author: Pearson, Karl, 1857-1936.
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- Title: The history of statistics in the 17th and 18th centuries
- against the changing background of intellectual,
- scientific, and religious thought : lectures by Karl
- Pearson given at University College, London, during the
- academic sessions, 1921-1933 / edited by E. S. Pearson.
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- Publication Info: London : C. Griffin, c1978.
- Phys. Description: xix, 744 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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- Notes: Bibliography: p. 732-734.
- Notes: Includes index.
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- Subjects: Mathematical statistics--History--17th century--Addresses,
- essays, lectures.
- Subjects: Mathematical statistics--History--18th century--Addresses,
- essays, lectures.
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- Other Names: Pearson, E. S. (Egon Sharpe), 1895-
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- LC Card Number: 79318701 //r85
- ISBN: 0-85264-250-4 : 7.50
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