05421nam 2200637 450 991014123660332120170809153946.01-283-28289-51-118-15071-697866132828971-118-15072-4(CKB)2670000000128099(EBL)818806(OCoLC)773910262(SSID)ssj0000555018(PQKBManifestationID)11386048(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000555018(PQKBWorkID)10517437(PQKB)10564546(MiAaPQ)EBC818806(EXLCZ)99267000000012809920160816h19971997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLeading personalities in statistical sciences from the 17th century to the present /edited by Norman L. Johnson and Samuel KotzNew York :John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,1997.©19971 online resource (458 p.)Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics"A Wiley-Interscience Publication."0-471-16381-3 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.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, TosioNeyman, 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)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 anWiley series in probability and statistics.StatisticiansBiographyElectronic books.Statisticians519.50922Johnson Norman LloydKotz SamuelMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910141236603321Leading personalities in statistical sciences2029032UNINA