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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I : Statistics and Social Science
Chapter 1 : Karl Pearson and the Cambridge Economics
Chapter 2 : The Average Man is 168 Years Old
Chapter 3 : Jevons as Statistician
Chapter 4 : Jevons on the King - Davenant Law of Demand
Chapter 5 : Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Statistician
Part II : Galtonian Ideas
Chapter 6 : Galton and Identification by Fingerprints
Chapter 7 : Stochastic Simulation in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 8 : The History of Statistics in 1933
Chapter 9 : Regression toward the Mean
Chapter 10 : Statistical Concepts in Psychology
Part III : Some Seventeenth-Century Explorers
Chapter 11 : Apollo Mathematics
Chapter 12 : The Dark Ages of Probability
Chapter 13 : John Craig and the Probability of History
Part IV : Questions of Discovery
Chapter 14 : Stigler's Law of Eponymy
Chapter 15 : Who Discovered Bayes's Theorem?
Chapter 16 : Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, and Maximum Likelihood
Chapter 17 : Gauss and the Invention of Least Squares
Chapter 18 : Cauchy and the Witch of Agnesi
Chapter 19 : Karl Pearson and Degrees of Freedom
Part V : Questions of Standards
Chapter 20 : Statistics and Standards
Chapter 21 : The Trial of the Pyx
Chapter 22 : Normative Terminology
References
Credits
Index
