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The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900

hardcover – August 21, 1986
by Porter, Theodore M.
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ISBN-13: 9780691084169 ISBN-10: 0691084165
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Binding
hardcover
Published
August 21, 1986
Weight
1.5 lbs
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The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 by Porter, Theodore M.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780691084169.

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 and social science.