Download or read book Letters addressed to the Grand Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha on the Theory of Probabilities as applied to the Moral and Political Sciences Translated from the French by O G Downes written by Lambert Adolphe Jacques QUETELET and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pierre Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities written by Pierre-Simon Laplace and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-03-16 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827) is remembered amoung probabilitists today particularly for his "Theorie analytique des probabilites", published in 1812. The "Essai philosophique dur les probabilites" is his introduction for the second edition of this work. Here Laplace provided a popular exposition on his "Theorie". The "Essai", based on a lecture on probability given by Laplace in 1794, underwent sweeping changes, almost doubling in size, in the various editions published during Laplace's lifetime. Translations of various editions in different languages have apeared over the years. The only English translation of 1902 reads awkwardly today. This is a thorough and modern translation based on the recent re-issue, with its voluminous notes, of the fifth edition of 1826, with preface by Rene Thom and postscript by Bernard Bru. In the second part of the book, the reader is provided with an extensive commentary by the translator including valuable histographical and mathematical remarks and various proofs.
Download or read book Edgeworth on Chance Economic Hazard and Statistics written by Francis Ysidro Edgeworth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1994 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the early neo-classical economists, Francis Edgeworth is known as one of the most brilliant. Mirowski has created an intellectual biography of this key figure that is unprecedented in scope.
Download or read book Predicting the Weather written by Katharine Anderson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Britain, with its maritime economy and strong links between government and scientific enterprises, founded an office to collect meteorological statistics in 1854 in an effort to foster a modern science of the weather. But as the office turned to prediction rather than data collection, the fragile science became a public spectacle, with its forecasts open to daily scrutiny in the newspapers. And meteorology came to assume a pivotal role in debates about the responsibility of scientists and the authority of science. Studying meteorology as a means to examine the historical identity of prediction, Katharine Anderson offers here an engrossing account of forecasting that analyzes scientific practice and ideas about evidence, the organization of science in public life, and the articulation of scientific values in Victorian culture. In Predicting the Weather, Anderson grapples with fundamental questions about the function, intelligibility, and boundaries of scientific work while exposing the public expectations that shaped the practice of science during this period. A cogent analysis of the remarkable history of weather forecasting in Victorian Britain, Predicting the Weather will be essential reading for scholars interested in the public dimensions of science.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Free Public Library Sydney Reference Department written by Free Public Library (Sydney, N.S.W.). Reference Department and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Free Public Library Sydney 1876 Reference Department written by Free Public Library (Sydney, N.S.W.) and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Letters Addressed to His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha on the Theory of Probabilities as Applied to the Moral and Political Sciences written by Adolphe Lambert Jacques Quetelet and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue Extracted from the Catalogues of the Bodleian Library the British Library the Library of Trinity College Dublin the National Library of Scotland and the University Libraries of Cambridge and Newcastle Phase 1 1816 1870 v 15 Fort Fyv and Indexes for volumes 11 15 v 20 Hor Hunt W R and Indexes for v 16 20 v 21 Hunten Jero v 22 Jerp Kief v 23 Kieg Lecom v 24 Lecon Lorc v 25 Lord Maccaul and Indexes for volumes 21 25 written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum written by British Library and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A History of Mathematical Statistics from 1750 to 1930 written by Anders Hald and published by Wiley-Interscience. This book was released on 1998-04-22 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Sociology and Statistics in Britain 1833 1979 written by Plamena Panayotova and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twentieth century, Britain stood at the forefront of science and statistics and had a long and respected tradition of social investigation and reform. But it still did not yet have a ‘science of society.’ When, in the early 1900s, a small band of enthusiasts got together to address this situation, the scene was set for a grand synthesis. No such synthesis ever took place and, instead, British sociology has followed a resolutely non-statistical path. Sociology and Statistics in Britain, 1833-1979 investigates how this curious situation came about and attempts to explain it from an historical perspective. It uncovers the prevalence of a deep and instinctive distrust within British sociology of the statistical methodology and mindset, resulting in a mix of quiet indifference and active hostility, which has persisted from its beginnings right up to the present day. While British sociology has thrived institutionally since the post-war expansion of higher education, this book asks whether or not it is poorer for having failed to recognise that statistics provides the foundations for the scientific study of society and for having missed opportunities to build upon those foundations. Ultimately, this important, revealing and timely book is about British sociology’s refusal to come to grips with a modern scientific way of thinking which no discipline that aspires to an effective study of society can afford to ignore.
Download or read book Permutation Statistical Methods written by Kenneth J. Berry and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research monograph provides a synthesis of a number of statistical tests and measures, which, at first consideration, appear disjoint and unrelated. Numerous comparisons of permutation and classical statistical methods are presented, and the two methods are compared via probability values and, where appropriate, measures of effect size. Permutation statistical methods, compared to classical statistical methods, do not rely on theoretical distributions, avoid the usual assumptions of normality and homogeneity of variance, and depend only on the data at hand. This text takes a unique approach to explaining statistics by integrating a large variety of statistical methods, and establishing the rigor of a topic that to many may seem to be a nascent field in statistics. This topic is new in that it took modern computing power to make permutation methods available to people working in the mainstream of research. lly-informed="" audience,="" and="" can="" also="" easily="" serve="" as="" textbook="" in="" graduate="" course="" departments="" such="" statistics,="" psychology,="" or="" biology.="" particular,="" the="" audience="" for="" book="" is="" teachers="" of="" practicing="" statisticians,="" applied="" quantitative="" students="" fields="" medical="" research,="" epidemiology,="" public="" health,="" biology.
