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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Main Author: Walker, Helen M. (Helen Mary), 1891-1983
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Williams and Wilkins Company, 1929.
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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).
Item Description:Published also as thesis (PH. D.) Columbia University.
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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).