Statistics on the Table

Contents vii
Acknowledgments IX 
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Introduction 1 
I. Statistics and Social Science 11
...1 Karl Pearson and the Cambridge Economists 13 
...2 The Average Man Is 168 Years Old 51 
...3 Jevons as Statistician 66 
...4 Jevons on the King-Davenant Law of Demand 80 
...5 Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Statistician 87 
II. Galtonian Ideas 129
...6 Galton and Identification by Fingerprints 131 
...7 Stochastic Simulation in the Nineteenth Century 141 
...8 The History of Statistics in 1933 157 
...9 Regression toward the Mean 173 
...10 Statistical Concepts in Psychology 189 
III. Some Seventeenth-Century Explorers 201
...11 Apollo Mathematicus 203 
...12 The Dark Ages of Probability 239 
...13 John Craig and the Probability of History 252 
IV. Questions of Discovery 275
...14 Stigler's Law of Eponymy 277 
...15 Who Discovered Bayes's Theorem? 291 
...16 Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, and Maximum Likelihood 302 
...17 Gauss and the Invention of Least Squares 320 
...18 Cauchy and the Witch of Agnesi 332 
...19 Karl Pearson and Degrees of Freedom 338 
V. Questions of Standards 359
...20 Statistics and Standards 361
...21 The Trial of the Pyx 383
...22 Normative Terminology 403
References 433
Credits 477
Index 479