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Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences : From the Seventeenth Century to the Present
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Book chapters
pp. i
Front Matter
pp. 1
Forerunners
pp. 3
Abbe, Ernst
pp. 5
Achenwall, Gottfried
pp. 7
Arbuthnot, John
pp. 11
Bayes, Thomas
pp. 15
Bernoullis, The
pp. 21
Bienaymé, Irenée-Jules
pp. 24
Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe
pp. 26
De Moivre, Abraham
pp. 28
De Montmort, Pierre Rémond
pp. 31
Déparcieux, Antoine
pp. 33
De Witt, Johan
pp. 36
Graunt, John and Petty, William
pp. 42
Helmert, Friedrich Robert
pp. 45
Huygens, Christiaan
pp. 47
Lambert, Johann Heinrich
pp. 49
Laplace, Pierre Simon
pp. 55
Newton, Isaac
pp. 61
Pascal, Blaise
pp. 64
Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques
pp. 67
′sGravesande, Willem Jacob
pp. 70
Sinclair, John
pp. 73
Süssmilch, Johann Peter
pp. 76
Wargentin, Pehr Wilhelm
pp. 81
Statistical Inference
pp. 83
Birnbaum, Allan
pp. 86
Cox, Gertrude Mary
pp. 89
Cramér, Harald
pp. 91
David, Florence Nightingale
pp. 94
de Finnetti, Bruno
pp. 96
Elfving, Gustav
pp. 99
Fisher, Ronald Aylmer
pp. 109
Galton, Francis
pp. 112
Guttman, Louis
pp. 118
Hoeffding, Wassily
pp. 123
Hotelling, Harold
pp. 125
Hsu, Pao-Lu
pp. 128
Jeffreys, Harold
pp. 130
Kendall, Maurice George
pp. 133
Kitagawa, Tosio
pp. 137
Neyman, Jerzy
pp. 146
Pearson, Egon Sharpe
pp. 150
Pearson, Karl
pp. 153
Pitman, Edwin James George
pp. 156
Savage, Leonard Jimmie
pp. 159
Sverdrup, Erlang
pp. 161
Thiele, Thorvald Nicolai
pp. 164
Wald, Abraham
pp. 168
Yule, George Udny
pp. 171
Statistical Theory
pp. 173
Aitken, Alexander Craig
pp. 176
Anderson, Oskar (Nikolaevich) Johann Viktor
pp. 179
Bol'shev, Login Nikolaevich
pp. 181
Bortkiewicz, Ladislaus Josephowitsch Von
pp. 183
Bose, Raj Chandra
pp. 185
Chuprov (or Tschuprow), Alexander Alexandrovich
pp. 188
Cochran, William Gemmell
pp. 190
Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro
pp. 192
Gumbel, Emil Julius
pp. 194
Hájek, Jaroslav
pp. 197
Hartley, Herman Otto
pp. 199
Langevin, Paul
pp. 201
Lévy, Paul-Pierre
pp. 203
Lüroth, Jakob
pp. 205
Rényi, Alfréd
pp. 208
Smirnov, Nikolai Vasil'yevich
pp. 211
Wilks, Samuel Stanley
pp. 213
Wold, Herman Ole Andreas
pp. 215
Wolfowitz, Jacob
pp. 221
Probability Theory
pp. 223
Bernstein, Sergei Natanovich
pp. 225
Bonferroni, Carlo Emilio
pp. 228
Cantelli, Francesco Paolo
pp. 233
Cauchy, Augustin-Louis
pp. 236
Chebyshev (or Tschébichef) Pafnuty Lvovich
pp. 240
Feller, William
pp. 244
Gnedenko, Boris Vladimirovich
pp. 247
Hannan, Edward James
pp. 253
Jordan, Károly (Charles)
pp. 255
Kolmogorov, Andrei Nikolayevich
pp. 257
Liapunov, Alexander Mikhailovich
pp. 260
Linnik, Yurii Vladimirovich
pp. 263
Markov, Andrei Andreevich
pp. 266
Ramsey, Frank Plumpton
pp. 268
Wiener, Norbert
pp. 272
Yanson (or Jahnson), Yurii Eduardovich
pp. 274
Yastremskii, Boris Sergeyevich
pp. 275
Government and Economic Statistics
pp. 277
Bowley, Arthur Lyon
pp. 280
Engel, (Christian Lorenz) Ernst
pp. 284
Farr, William
pp. 287
Fisher, Irving
pp. 289
Franscini, Stefano
pp. 291
Slutskii (Slutsky), Evgenii Evgenievich
pp. 297
Gini, Corrado
pp. 299
Hansen, Morris Howard
pp. 300
Kiaer, Anders Nicolai
pp. 303
Konüs (Konyus), Alexandr Alexandrovich
pp. 305
Körösy, József
pp. 308
Lexis, Wilhelm
pp. 311
Mahalanobis, Prasanta Chandra
pp. 316
Nightingale, Florence
pp. 319
Westergaard, Harald Ludvig
pp. 321
Willcox, Walter Francis
pp. 322
Winkler, Wilhelm
pp. 325
Applications in Medicine and Agriculture
pp. 327
Gosset, William Seeley (“Student”)
pp. 330
Goulden, Cyril Harold
pp. 334
Hill, Austin Bradford
pp. 336
Nemchinov, Vasilii Sergeevich
pp. 339
Snedecor, George Waddel
pp. 342
Spearman, Charles Edward
pp. 344
Wilson, Edwin Bidwell
pp. 347
Yates, Frank
pp. 351
Applications in Science and Engineering
pp. 353
Boltzmann, Ludwig Edward
pp. 355
Deming, William Edwards
pp. 361
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
pp. 367
Maxwell, James Clerk
pp. 370
Scott, Elizabeth Leonard
pp. 372
Wilcoxon, Frank
pp. 377
Appendix A
pp. 379
Cournot, Antoine Augustin
pp. 381
Fermat Pierre de
pp. 382
German (Hermann), Karl Fedorovich
pp. 384
Mises, Richard Martin Edler, von
pp. 389
Newcomb, Simon
pp. 392
Poisson, Siméon-Denis
pp. 395
Rasch, Georg
pp. 397
Appendix B: Index of Leading Statistical Personalities
pp. 399
Appendix C: A Statistical Analysis of Lifelengths of Leading Statistical Personalities
pp. 407
Index of Names
pp. 413
Subject Index
pp. 422
Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
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