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Record Nr.

UNINA9910141236603321

Titolo

Leading personalities in statistical sciences : from the 17th century to the present / / edited by Norman L. Johnson and Samuel Kotz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 1997

©1997

ISBN

1-283-28289-5

1-118-15071-6

9786613282897

1-118-15072-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (458 p.)

Collana

Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics

Disciplina

519.50922

Soggetti

Statisticians

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Wiley-Interscience Publication."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present; Contents; Preface; SECTION 1 FORERUNNERS; Abbe, Ernst (3); Achenwall, Gottfried (5); Arbuthnot, John (7); Bayes, Thomas (4); Bernoullis, The (3, 4); Bienaymé, Irenée-Jules (4, 5); Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe; De Moivre, Abraham (4, 5); De Montmort, Pierre Rémond (4, 5); Déparcieux, Antoine; De Witt, Johan (3, 5); Graunt, John and Petty, William (5); Helmert, Friedrich Robert (3, 4); Huygens, Christiaan (4); Lambert, Johann Heinrich (4); Laplace, Pierre Simon (2, 3, 4, 7); Newton, Isaac (4, 7)

Pascal, Blaise (4, 7)Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques (5); 'sGravesande, Willem Jacob (2, 5); Sinclair, John (5); Süssmilch, Johann Peter (3, 5); Wargentin, Pehr Wilhelm (5, 7); SECTION 2 STATISTICAL INFERENCE; Birnbaum, Allan (3); Cox, Gertrude Mary (5, 6, 7); Cramer, Harald (3); David, Florence Nightingale (3); de Finnetti, Bruno (4); Elfving, Gustav; Fisher, Ronald Aylmer (3, 6, 7); Galton, Francis (1, 6); Guttman, Louis (5, 7); Hoeffding, Wassily (3, 4); Hotelling, Harold (3, 5); Hsu, Pao-Lu; Jeffreys, Harold (4, 7); Kendall, Maurice George (3, 5, 6,



7); Kitagawa, Tosio

Neyman, Jerzy (6, 7)Pearson, Egon Sharpe (3, 7); Pearson, Karl (3, 6); Pitman, Edwin James George (4); Savage, Leonard Jimmie (4); Sverdrup, Erlang (3, 4); Thiele, Thorvald Nicolai; Wald, Abraham (3, 4, 5); Yule, George Udny (5); SECTION 3 STATISTICAL THEORY; Aitken, Alexander Craig (4); Anderson, Oskar (Nikolaevich) Johann Viktor (4, 5); Bol'shev, Login Nikolaevich (4); Bortkiewicz, Ladislaus Josephowitsch Von (2, 7); Bose, Raj Chandra; Chuprov (or Tschuprow), Alexander Alexandrovich (5, 6); Cochran, William Gemmell (5, 6); Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro (1, 2, 4, 5); Gumbel, Emil Julius (4)

Hájek, Jaroslav (4, 5)Hartley, Herman Otto (7); Langevin, Paul (4); Lévy, Paul-Pierre (4); Lüroth, Jakob; Rényl, Alfréd (4); Smirov, Nikolai Vasil'yevich (4); Wilks, Samuel Stanley (5); Wold, Herman Ole Andreas (4, 5); Wolfowitz, Jacob (2, 4); SECTION 4 PROBABILITY THEORY; Bernstein, Sergei Natanovich; Bonferroni, Cario Emilio (3, 5); Cantelli, Francesco Paolo; Cauchy, Augustin-Louis (3); Chebyshev (or Tschébichef) Pafnuty Lvovich; Feller, William (2, 3); Gnedenko, Boris Vladimirovich; Hannan, Edward James (3, 5); Jordan, Károly (Charles); Kolmogorov, Andrei Nikolayevich (3, 5, 7)

Liapunov, Alexander Mikhailovich (3, 7)Linnik, Yurii Vladimirovich (3, 7); Markov, Andrei Andreevich (3); Ramsey, Frank Plumpton (7); Wiener, Norbert (3); Yanson (or Jahnson), Yurii Eduardovich; Yastremskii, Boris Sergeyevich (5); SECTION 5 GOVERNMENT AND ECONOMIC STATISTICS; Bowley, Arthur Lyon (3); Engel, (Christian Lorenz) Ernst; Farr, William (6); Fisher, Irving; Franscini, Stefano; Gini, Corrado (2, 3); Hansen, Morris Howard (3); Kiaer, Anders Nicolai; Konüs (Konyus), Alexandr Alexandrovich (3); Körösy, József; Lexis, Wilhelm (2, 3); Mahalanobis, Prasanta Chandra (3, 6, 7)

Nightingale, Florence (6)

Sommario/riassunto

A fascinating chronicle of the lives and achievements of the men and women who helped shapethe science of statisticsThis handsomely illustrated volume will make enthralling reading for scientists, mathematicians, and science history buffs alike. Spanning nearly four centuries, it chronicles the lives and achievements of more than 110 of the most prominent names in theoretical and applied statistics and probability. From Bernoulli to Markov, Poisson to Wiener, you will find intimate profiles of women and men whose work led to significant advances in the areas of statistical inference an