Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability

STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

Edited by E S Pearson and M G Kendall (QUARTO S 0.9 STU)

CONTENTS

Dicing and gaming by F N David
The beginnings of probability calculus by M G Kendall
A Note on playing cards by M G Kendall
The Book of Fate by M G Kendall
Random mechanisms in Talmudic literature by A M Hasofer
Where shall the history of statistics begin? by M G Kendall
Medical statistics from Graunt to Farr by M Greenwood
The principle of the arithmetic mean by R L Plackett
A note on the early solutions of the problem of the duration of play by A R Thatcher
An essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances by T Bayes (with a biographical note by G A Barnard)
The most probable choice between several discrepant observations and the formulation therefrom of the most likely induction by D Bernoulli (with observations by L Euler and an introductiory note by M G Kendall)
A note on the history of the graphical presentation of nature by E Royston
Thomas Young on coincidences by M G Kendall
Notes on the history of correlation by Karl Pearson
The historical development of the Gauss linear model by H L Seal
On the early history of the law of large numbers by O B Sheynin
A note on the early statistical study of literary style by C B Williams
De Morgan and the statistical study of literary style by R D Lord
Isaac Todhunter's History of the Mathematical Theory of Probability by M G Kendall
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, 1845-1926 by M G Kendall
Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, 1860-1926 by Karl Pearson
Some incidents in the early history of biometry and statistics 1890-94 by E S Pearson
Some reflexions on continuity in the development of mathematical statistics, 1885-1920 by E S Pearson
William Sealy Gosset, 1876-1937 (1) ``Student'' as a man by L McMullen, (2) ``Student'' as a statistician by E S Pearson
Some early correspondence between W S Gosset, R A Fisher and Karl Pearson with notes and comments by E S Pearson
George Udny Yule, 1871-1951 by M G Kendall
Karl Pearson 1857 (1957). A centenary lecture delivered at University College London by J B S Haldane
Ronald Aylmer Fisher, 1890-1962 by M G Kendall
The Neyman-Pearson story: 1926-1934. Historical sidelights on an episode in Anglo-Polish collaboration

APPENDIX Summary of contents of Karl Pearson's lectues on the History of Statistics in the 17th and 18th Centuries

STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY II

Edited by M G Kendall and R L Plackett (QUARTO S 0.9 STU)

CONTENTS

On the possible and probable in Ancient Greece by S Sambursky
Probability in the Talmud by N L Rabinovitch
Combinations and probabilities in rabbinic literature by N L Rabinovitch
A Budget of paradoxes by H L Seal
An argument for Divine Providence, taken from the constant regularity observ'd in the births of both sexes by J Arbuthnot
Measurement in the study of society by M G Kendall
The early history of index numbers by M G Kendall
Abraham De Moivre's 1733 derivation of the normal curve: a bibliographical note by R S Daw and E S Pearson
The historical development of the use of generating functions in probability theory by H L Seal
Boscovich and the combination of observations by C Eisenhart
Daniel Bernoulli on the normal law by O B Sheynin
D Bernoulli's work on probability by O B Sheynin
Progress in the middle of the eighteenth century. Süssmilch and his contemporaries. Estimates and enumerations of population. Progess of theory at the close of the eighteenth century by H Westergaard.
Leading British statisticians of the nineteenth century by P J FitzPatrick
Notes on the history of quantification in sociology trends, sources and problems by P F Lazerfeld
Laplace, Fisher, and the discovery of the concept of sufficiency by S M Stigler
The discovery of the method of least squares by R L Plackett
Development of the notion of statistical dependence by H O Lancaster
Florence Nightingale as a statistician by E W Kopf
On the history of some statistical laws of distribution by O B Sheynin
The work of Ernst Abbe by M G Kendall
Entropy, probability and information by M G Kendall
A history of random processes. I. Brownian motion from Brown to Perrin by S G Brush
Branching processes since 1873 by D G Kendall
The simple brancning process, a turing point test and a fundamental inequality: a historical note on I.J. Bienaymé by C C Heyde and E Seneta
Simon Newcomb, Percy Daniell, and the history of robust estimation 1885-1920 by S M Stigler
The hypothesis of elementary errors and the Scandinavian school in statistical theory by C-E Särndal
On the history of certain expansions used in mathematical statistics by H Cramér
Historical survey of the development of sampling theories and practice by You Poh Seng
Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley (1869-1957) by W F Maunder
Note on the history of sampling methods in Russia by S S Zarkovic
A supplement to ``Note on the history of sampling methods in Russia'' by S S Zarkovic.
STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY
The two collections Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability, edited by E S Pearson and M G Kendall, Griffin 1970 and Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability, Volume II, edited by M G Kendall and R L Plackett, Griffin 1977, contain all of numbers I to XXXII of the occasional series Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability. There are in fact two diferent papers numbered XXI, one by O B Sheynin and the other by M G Kendall; however, the latter, hereafter denoted XXI bis is unique in that it first appeared in Rev. Int. Stat. Inst. rather than in Biometrika, which is where all the other papers first appeared.
Numbers I to XXI appear in the first volume as papers with the following Arabic numbers:
I - 1; II - 2; III - 12; IV - 17; V - 3; VI - 9; VII - 8; VIII - 18; IX - 10; X - 6; XI - 11; XII - 4; XIII - 19; XIV - 22; XV - 15; XVI - 5; XVII - 23; XVIII - 13; XIX - 20; XX - 25; XXI - 16.
Numbers XXI bis and XXII to XXXII appear in Volume II as papers with the following Arabic numbers:
XXI bis - 7; XXII - 2; XXIII - 11; XXIV - 3; XXV - 20; XXVI - 21; XXVII - 27; XXVIII - 28; XXIX - 17; XXX - 8; XXXI - 25; XXXII - 16.

PAPERS IN THE SERIES NOT INCLUDED IN EITHER VOLUME
- XXIII. Cauchy and the Witch of Agnesi: An historical note on the Cauchy distribution by S M Stigler, Biometrika 61 (1974), 375-380.
- XXXIV. Napoleonic statistics: The work of Laplace by S M Stigler, Biometrika 62 (1975), 503-517.
- XXXV. Multiple decrements or competing risks by H L Seal, Biometrika 64 (1977), 429-439.
- XXXVI. Arthur Black: A forgotten pioneer of mathematical statistics by D A MacKenzie, Biometrika 64 (1977), 613-616.
- XXXVII. A M Turing's statistical work in World War II by I J Good, Biometrika 66 (1979), 393-396.
- XXXVIII. R H Smith, a Victorian interested in robustness by S M Stigler, Biometrika 67 (1980), 217-221.
- XXXIX. Buffon's cycloid by P Holgate, Biometrika 68 (1981), 712-716; Amendments and Corrections 69 (1982), 491.
- XL. Simpson and a 1760 Manuscript Note on Fitting a Linear Relation by S M Stigler, Biometrika 71 (1984), 615-620.
- XLI. Waring and Sylvester on Random Algebraic Equations by P Holgate, Biometrika 73 (1986), 228-231.
- XLII. Further details of contacts between Boscovitch and Simpson in June 1760 by RW Farebrother, Biometrika 77 (1990), 397-400.
- XLIII Karl Pearson and Quasi-Independence by S M Stigler, Biometrika 79 (1992), 563-575.
- XLIV A Forerunner of the t-Distribution by J. Pfanzagl and O Sheynin, Biometrika 83 (1996), 891-898.
- XLV. The Late Philip Holgate's Paper `Independent Functions: Probability and Analysis in Poland Between the Wars' by N H Bingham and Philip Holgate, Biometrika 84 (1997), 159-173.
- XLVI. Measure into probability: from Lebesgue to Kolmogorov by N Bingham, Biometrika 87 (2000), 145-156,.
- XLVII. Pizzetti's contributions to the statistical analysis of normally distributed observations, 1891 by A Hald, Biometrika 87 (2000), pp. 213-217,
- XLVIII. The Bayesian contributions of Ernest Lhoste by L Broemeling and A Broemeling, Biometrika 90 (2003), 728-731,
STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

AUTHOR INDEX

(Page numbers in italics are in Volume II)

Arbuthnott, J, 30
Barnard, G A, 131
Bayes, T R, 131
Bernoulli, D, 155
Brush, S G, 347
Cramér, H, 437
David, F N, 1
Daw, R H, 63
Eisenhart, C, 88
Euler, L, 155
FitzPatrick, P J, 180
Greenwood, M, 47
Haldane, J B S, 427
Hasofer, A M, 39
Heyde, C C, 406
Kendall, D G, 383
Kendall, M G, 19, 35, 37, 45, 155, 183, 253, 257, 419, 439, 35, 51, 331, 337
Kopf, E W, 310
Lancaster, H O, 293
Lazarsfeld, P F, 213
Lord, H D, 251
McMullem, L, 355
Maunder, W F, 459
Pearson, E S, 323, 339, 360, 405, 455, 63
Pearson, K, 185, 265, 479
Plackett, R L, 121, 279
Rabinovich, N L, 15, 21
Royston, E, 173
Sambursky, S, 1
S&\uml;rndel, C-E, 419
Seal, H L, 207, 24, 67
Seneta, E, 406
Seng Y P, 446
Sheynin, O B, 231, 101, 105, 328
Stigler, S M, 271, 416
Thatcher, R, 127
Westergaard, H, 133
Williams, C B, 241
Zarkovic, S S, 482, 486

Revised 18 August 2004