The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 /

The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 / / Theodore M. Porter.

An essential work on the origins of statisticsThe Rise of Statistical Thinking explores the history of statistics from the field's origins in the nineteenth century through to the factors that produced the burst of modern statistical innovation in the early twentieth century. Theodore Porter sh...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Porter, Theodore M.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©1986
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • preface to the new edition
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART ONE
  • THE SOCIAL CALCULUS
  • Chapter One. STATISTICS AS SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • Chapter Two. THE LAWS THAT GOVERN CHAOS
  • Chapter Three. FROM NATURE'S URN TO THE INSURANCE OFFICE
  • PART TWO
  • THE SUPREME LAW OF UNREASON
  • Chapter Four. THE ERRORS OF ART AND NATURE
  • Chapter Five. SOCIAL LAW AND NATURAL SCIENCE
  • PART THREE
  • THE SCIENCE OF UNCERTAINTY
  • Chapter Six. STATISTICAL LAW AND HUMAN FREEDOM
  • Chapter Seven. TIME'S ARROW AND STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY IN PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY
  • PART FOUR
  • POLYMATHY AND DISCIPLINE
  • Chapter Eight. THE MATHEMATICS OF STATISTICS
  • Chapter Nine. THE ROOTS OF BIOMETRICAL STATISTICS
  • CONCLUSION
  • INDEX

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