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Paperback The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 Book

ISBN: 069102409X

ISBN13: 9780691024097

The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900

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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, Boltzmann, and Galton, each introduced statistical models by pointing to analogies between his discipline...

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