The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900

By Theodore M. Porter

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Emphasizing the debt of science to nonspecialist intellectuals, Theodore Porter describes in detail the nineteenth-century background that produced the burst of modern statistical innovation of the early 1900s. Statistics arose as a study of society--the science of the statist--and the pioneering statistical physicists and biologists, Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Galton, each introduced statistical models by pointing to analogies between his discipline and social science.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:069102409X

ISBN13:9780691024097

Release Date:March 1988

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:348 Pages

Weight:0.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

History & Philosophy Math Mathematics Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology Statistics

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