The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 |
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| Author:
| Porter, Theodore M. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-02409-7 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1988 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $62.50 |
Book Description:
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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, Bolt
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, Bolt