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The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900
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 Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900
An essential work on the origins of statistics The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 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...
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900
An outstanding feature of Mr. Porter's book is its depiction of the interrelationships between statistics and certain intellectual and social movements. . . . [The book] is unfailingly interesting. --Morris Kline, New York Times Book Review The Rise of Statistical Thinking avoids...
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