UID:
almahu_9949597212202882
Format:
1 online resource (360 pages).
Edition:
New edition.
ISBN:
9780691210520 (ebook) :
Series Statement:
Princeton scholarship online
Content:
'The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900' explores the history of statistics from the field's origins in the nineteenth century through to the factors that produced the burst of modern statistical innovation in the early twentieth century. Theodore Porter shows that statistics was not developed by mathematicians and then applied to the sciences and social sciences. Rather, the field came into being through the efforts of social scientists, who saw a need for statistical tools in their examination of society. Pioneering statistical physicists and biologists James Clerk Maxwell, Ludwig Boltzmann, and Francis Galton introduced statistical models to the sciences by pointing to analogies between their disciplines and the social sciences. A new preface by the author looks at how the book has remained relevant since its initial publication.
Note:
This edition previously issued in print: 2020.
Additional Edition:
Print version : ISBN 9780691208428
Language:
English
URL:
Princeton scholarship online
