Statisticians of the centuries /
Statisticians of the Centuries aims to demonstrate the achievements of statistics to a broad audience, and to commemorate the work of celebrated statisticians. This is done through short biographies that put the statistical work in its historical and sociological context, emphasizing contributions t...
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[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- 16th Century
- Probability Prior to Pascal
- 17th Century
- Pierre de Fermat
- John Graunt
- Blaise Pascal
- Christi5n Huygens
- Caspar Neumann
- Jakob Bernoulli
- John Arbuthnot
- 18th Century
- Abraham de Moivre
- Pierre Rmond de Montmort
- Nicolaus Bernoulli
- Daniel Bernoulli
- Thomas Bayes
- Johann Peter Sssmilch
- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
- Rogerius Josephus Boscovich
- Dalembert
- Marquis de Condorcet
- 19th Century
- Pierre-Simon Marquis de Laplace
- Adrien-Marie Legendre
- William Playfair
- Thomas Robert Malthus
- Sir Frederick Morton Eden
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Simon-Denis Poisson
- Adolphe Quetelet
- Irene-Jules Bienaym
- Stefano Franscini
- Gustav Theodor Fechner
- Anton Meyer
- Antoine Augustin Cournot
- Augustus De Morgan
- William Farr
- George Boole
- Florence Nightingale
- Pafnutii Lvovich Chebyshev (or Tchbichef)
- Francis Galton
- Joseph Bertrand
- Johann Gregor Mendel
- John Venn
- Simon Newcomb
- William Stanley Jevons
- Wilhelm Lexis
- Anders Nicolai Kiaer
- Thorvald Nicolai Thiele
- Francis Amasa Walker
- Georg von Mayr
- Pyotr Dimitrievich Enko
- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
- Vilfredo Federigo Samaso Pareto
- 20th Century
- Fedor Andreevich Shcherbina
- Andrei Andreevich Markov
- Karl Pearson
- George Handley Knibbs
- Walter Frank Raphael Weldon
- Walter Francis Willcox
- Irving Fisher
- Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz
- Arthur Lyon Bowley
- Louis Bacheller
- mile Borel
- George Udny Yule
- Kroly Jordan
- Marian Smoluchowski
- Aleksander Aleksandrovich Chuprov (Or Tschuprow)
- Ernest Filip Oskar Lundberg
- William Sealy Gosset
- Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg
- Anderson Gray McKendrick
- Agner Krarup Erlang
- Maurice Frchet
- Harold Edwin Hurst
- Sergei Natanovich Bernstein
- Evgenii Evgenievich Slutsky (or Slutskii)
- George Waddel Snedecor
- Richard von Mises
- John Maynard Keynes
- Corrado Gini
- Wilhelm Winkler
- Egon Sharpe Pearson
- Oskar Anderson
- Georges Darmois
- Stuart Arthur Rice
- Ronald Aylmer Fisher
- Walter Andrew Shewhart
- Harold Jeffreys
- Emil Julius Gumbel
- Carlo Emilio Bonferroni
- Octav Onicescu
- Frank Wilcoxon
- Mikhailo Pylypovych Kravchuk (or Krawtchouk)
- Flix Pollaczek
- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
- Harald Cramr
- Jerzy Neyman
- Ragnar Frisch
- Harold Hotelling
- Robert Charles Geary
- Austin Bradford Hill
- Edwin James George Pitman
- Joseph Oscar Irwin
- Gertrude Mary Cox
- William John Youden
- W. Edwards Deming.