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Tables of Contents for Statistics on the Table
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
 
Introduction
1
12
I. Statistics and Social Science
Karl Pearson and the Cambridge Economists
13
38
The Average Man Is 168 Years Old
51
15
Jevons as Statistician
66
14
Jevons on the King-Davenant Law of Demand
80
7
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Statistician
87
44
II. Galtonian Ideas
Galton and Identification by Fingerprints
131
10
Stochastic Simulation in the Nineteenth Century
141
16
The History of Statistics in 1933
157
16
Regression toward the Mean
173
16
Statistical Concepts in Psychology
189
14
III. Some Seventeenth-Century Explorers
Apollo Mathematicus
203
36
The Dark Ages of Probability
239
13
John Craig and the Probability of History
252
25
IV. Questions of Discovery
Stigler's Law of Eponymy
277
14
Who Discovered Bayes's Theorem?
291
11
Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, and Maximum Likelihood
302
18
Gauss and the Invention of Least Squares
320
12
Cauchy and the Witch of Agnesi
332
6
Karl Pearson and Degrees of Freedom
338
23
V. Questions of Standards
Statistics and Standards
361
22
The Trial of the Pyx
383
20
Normative Terminology
403
30
W.H. Kruskal
References
433
44
Credits
477
2
Index
479