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The long-awaited second volume of Anders Hald's history of the development of mathematical statistics. Anders Hald's A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750 is already considered a classic by many mathematicians and historians. This new volume picks up where its predecessor left off, describing the contemporaneous development and interaction of four topics: direct probability theory and sampling distributions; inverse probability by Bayes and Laplace; the method of least squares and the central limit theorem; and selected topics in estimation theory after 1830. In this rich and detailed work, Hald carefully traces the history of parametric statistical inference, the development of the corresponding mathematical methods, and some typical applications. Not surprisingly, the ideas, concepts, methods, and results of Laplace, Gauss, and Fisher dominate his account. In particular, Hald analyzes the work and interactions of Laplace and Gauss and describes their contributions to modern theory. Hald also offers a great deal of new material on the history of the period and enhances our understanding of both the controversies and continuities that developed between the different schools. To enable readers to compare the contributions of various historical figures, Professor Hald has rewritten the original papers in a uniform modern terminology and notation, while leaving the ideas unchanged. Statisticians, probabilists, actuaries, mathematicians, historians of science, and advanced students will find absorbing reading in the author's insightful description of important problems and how they gradually moved toward solution.

Table of Contents:
DIRECT PROBABILITY 17501805. Some Results and Tools in Probability Theory (By Bernoulli, de Moivre, and Laplace). The Distribution of the Arithmetic Mean, 17561781. Chance or Design: Tests of Significance. Theory of Errors and Methods of Estimation. Fitting of Equations to Data, 17501805. INVERSE PROBABILITY BY BAYES AND LAPLACE, WITH COMMENTS ON LATER DEVELOPMENTS. Induction and Probability: The Philosophical Background. Bayes, Price, and the Essay, 17641765. Equiprobability, Equipossibility, and Inverse Probability. Laplace's Applications of the Principle of Inverse Probability in 1774. Laplace's General Theory of Inverse Probability. The Equiprobability Model and the Inverse Probability Model for Games of Chance. Laplace's Methods of Asymptotic Expansion, 1781 and 1785. Laplace's Analysis of Binomially Distributed Observations. Laplace's Theory of Statistical Prediction. Laplace's Sample Survey of the Population of France and the Distribution of the Ratio Estimator. THE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION, THE METHOD OF LEAST SQUARES, AND THE CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM. GAUSS AND LAPLACE, 18091828. The Early History of the Central Limit Theorem, 18101853. Derivations of the Normal Distribution as a Law of Error. Gauss's Linear Normal Model and the Method of Least Squares, 1809 and 1811. Laplace's Large-Sample Theory of Linear Estimation, 18111827. Gauss's Theory of Linear Unbiased Minimum Variance Estimation, 18231828. SELECTED TOPICS IN ESTIMATION THEORY 18301930. On Error and Estimation Theory, 18301890. Bienaym?'s Proof of the Multivariate Central Limit Theorem and His Defense of Laplace's Theory of Linear Estimation, 1852 and 1853. Cauchy's Method for Determining the Number of Terms to be Included in the Linear Model and for Estimating the Parameters, 18351853. Orthogonalization and Polynomial Regression. Statistical Laws in the Social and Biological Sciences, Poisson, Quetelet, and Galton, 18301890. Sampling Distributions under Normality. Fisher's Theory of Estimation, 19121935, and His Immediate Precursors. References. Index.

About the Author :
ANDERS HALD, now retired, was Professor of Statistics at the University of Copenhagen from 1948 to 1982. His previous books include A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750, the companion volume to this history. He is an honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society of London, the Danish Statistical Society, and the Danish Society for Industrial Quality Control.

Review :
"This book is a great asset to all statisticians...an educational, insightful, and quite enjoyable book." (Chance, April-June 2002) "...a very solid monograph...completed by numerous references, and an extended index of subjects and persons." (Zentralblatt Math, Vol. 979, No. 4)



Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780471179122
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Height: 240 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 1304 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0471179124
  • Publisher Date: 22 Apr 1998
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
  • Width: 160 mm


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