Studies in the history of statistical method : with special reference to certain educational problems /
"This study attempts to present the modern use of statistics against a background of the work of DeMoivre, Bernoulli, Gauss, Laplace, Quetelet, Galton, Ebbinghaus, Fechner, and many others. It is hoped that such a survey may be of use to students in various ways. It will furnish a historical pe...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Williams and Wilkins Company,
1929.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This study attempts to present the modern use of statistics against a background of the work of DeMoivre, Bernoulli, Gauss, Laplace, Quetelet, Galton, Ebbinghaus, Fechner, and many others. It is hoped that such a survey may be of use to students in various ways. It will furnish a historical perspective which will enable them better to understand and evaluate the present statistical practices and techniques employed in professional education, and it will provide a list of sources helpful to any student desiring to do intensive reading on a particular topic. It may also be of service to the man about to publish a new formula or a new term, by helping him discover what terms and formulas have already been proposed"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Item Description: | Published also as thesis (PH. D.) Columbia University. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 229 pages) : frontispiece, portraits, facsimiles, diagrams |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-215). |