Statistics on the Table The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods by Stephen M Stigler ISBN 13: 9780674009790

STIGLER, Stephen M.: Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2002. Stated first paperback edition (third printing). Softcover, 488 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Mathematical Statistics – History / Statistics – Essays, Popularization. Condition: Very Good. Some very light bumping to the corners. Otherwise a copy in near-fine condition with all pages clean and unmarked. "This lively 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 topics range from seventeenth -century medicine and the circulation of blood, to the cause of the Great Depression and the effect of the California gold discoveries of 1848 upon price levels, to the determinations of the shape of the Earth and the speed of light, to the meter of Virgil's poetry and the Second Coming..." ISBN: 0674009797

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Paperback / softback. New. This lively collection of essays examines statistical ideas with an ironic eye for their essence and what their history can tell us for current disputes. The topics range from 17th-century medicine and the circulation of blood, to the cause of the Great Depression, to the determinations of the shape of the Earth and the speed of light.

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Harvard Univ Pr, 2002. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 512 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches.

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