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Summary: how statistics evolved and the politics behind it
Review: This is a delightful book on the history of statistics. It is carefully researched and serious in a class witht eh works of Stigler, Porter, Hald and Salsburg.What is different and interesting about this book is the way it develops. It starts with social facts and the problems as they developed in various countries that required statistical methods and ideas for their solution. We are introduced to the prefects, geometers and astronomers. Early developments and philosophy are covered in the first four chapters including Bayes, averages and aggregates, correlation and causality and probability concepts and paradoxes. Then developments are separated out by countries with France and England treated in Chapter 5 and Germany and the United States in Chapter 6. The developments in each country are described in terms of the politics and the development of these nations and their needs. Interrelationships are discussed.
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Summary: how statistics evolved and the politics behind it
Review: This is a delightful book on the history of statistics. It is carefully researched and serious in a class witht eh works of Stigler, Porter, Hald and Salsburg. What is different and interesting about this book is the way it develops. It starts with social facts and the problems as they developed in various countries that required statistical methods and ideas for their solution. We are introduced to the prefects, geometers and astronomers. Early developments and philosophy are covered in the first four chapters including Bayes, averages and aggregates, correlation and causality and probability concepts and paradoxes. Then developments are separated out by countries with France and England treated in Chapter 5 and Germany and the United States in Chapter 6. The developments in each country are described in terms of the politics and the development of these nations and their needs. Interrelationships are discussed.
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