Article ID: CBB000330306

Social Statistics and Probability Theory in the 19th Century (2001)

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Description “traces the relationship between statistics … and the theory of probability in the 19th century and links this subject with the development of the statistical method in the natural sciences.” (from the abstract)


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Authors & Contributors
Armatte, Michel
Denis, Daniel J.
Aldrich, John
Bayley, Mel
Docherty, Kara R.
Fischer, Hans
Journals
Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Historia Mathematica
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Publishers
F. Steiner
Springer
Springer International
Yale University Press
Concepts
Probability and statistics
Mathematics
Science and literature
Vital statistics
Science and society
Correspondence and corresponding
People
Condorcet, Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de
Galton, Francis
Laplace, Pierre Simon
Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques
Bayes, Thomas
Booth, Charles
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
England
Great Britain
China
France
Italy
Institutions
École Polytechnique, Paris
Royal Statistical Society
Statistical Society of London
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