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- catalog abstract ""This collection of essays examines in witty detail the history of some of the concepts involved in bringing statistical argument "to the table" and some of the pitfalls that have been encountered. The title essay tells how the statistician Karl Pearson came to issue the challenge to put "statistics on the table" to the economists Marshall, Keynes, and Pigou in 1911. The 1911 dispute involved the effect of parental alcoholism upon children, but the challenge is general and timeless: important arguments require evidence, and quantitative evidence requires statistical evaluation."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11262371.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""This collection of essays examines in witty detail the history of some of the concepts involved in bringing statistical argument "to the table" and some of the pitfalls that have been encountered. The title essay tells how the statistician Karl Pearson came to issue the challenge to put "statistics on the table" to the economists Marshall, Keynes, and Pigou in 1911. The 1911 dispute involved the effect of parental alcoholism upon children, but the challenge is general and timeless: important arguments require evidence, and quantitative evidence requires statistical evaluation."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-475) and index.".
- catalog description "Karl Pearson and the Cambridge economists -- The average man is 168 years old -- Jevons as statistician -- Jevons on the King-Davenant Law of Demand -- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, statistician -- Galton and identification by fingerprints -- Stochastic simulation in the nineteenth century -- The history of statistics in 1933 -- Regression toward the mean -- Statistical concepts in psychology -- Apollo Mathematicus -- The dark ages of probability -- John Craig and the probability of history -- Stigler's law of eponymy -- Who discovered Bayes's Theorum? -- Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, and maximum likelihood -- Gauss and the invention of least squares -- Cauchy and the witch of Agnesi -- Karl Pearson and degrees of freedom -- Statistics and standards -- The trial of the Pyx -- Normative terminology / with W.H. Kruskal.".
- catalog extent "ix, 488 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0674836014 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog subject "519.5/09 21".
- catalog subject "Mathematical statistics History.".
- catalog subject "QA276.15 .S755 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Karl Pearson and the Cambridge economists -- The average man is 168 years old -- Jevons as statistician -- Jevons on the King-Davenant Law of Demand -- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, statistician -- Galton and identification by fingerprints -- Stochastic simulation in the nineteenth century -- The history of statistics in 1933 -- Regression toward the mean -- Statistical concepts in psychology -- Apollo Mathematicus -- The dark ages of probability -- John Craig and the probability of history -- Stigler's law of eponymy -- Who discovered Bayes's Theorum? -- Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, and maximum likelihood -- Gauss and the invention of least squares -- Cauchy and the witch of Agnesi -- Karl Pearson and degrees of freedom -- Statistics and standards -- The trial of the Pyx -- Normative terminology / with W.H. Kruskal.".
- catalog title "Statistics on the table : the history of statistical concepts and methods / Stephen M. Stigler.".
- catalog type "Essays. lcgft".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".