The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820–1900 (eBook)

Theodore M. Porter (Autor)

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2020
360 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21052-0 (ISBN)

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An essential work on the origins of statisticsThe 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, and considers the current place of statistics in scientific research.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.8.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Accuracy and precision • Adolphe Quetelet • Analogy • arithmetic mean • Atomism • biologist • Biology • Calculation • Causality • Certainty • Charles Babbage • Charles Darwin • Contingency (Philosophy) • Contradiction • Darwinism • Demography • Dynamism (metaphysics) • Equipossibility • error • Error analysis (Mathematics) • Error Function • Eugenics • Explanation • Fatalism • Francis Galton • Gemmule (pangenesis) • heredity • Historicism • hypothesis • Ian Hacking • indeterminism • inference • John Herschel • John Stuart Mill • Joseph Fourier • Karl Pearson • kinetic theory of gases • law of large numbers • Lecture • Lorraine Daston • Ludwig Boltzmann • Mathematical Analysis • Mathematical problem • Mathematical Statistics • mathematician • Mathematics • Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution • Measurement • Medical Statistics • meteorology • Molecule • Natural Philosophy • Natural science • Normal distribution • observational astronomy • phenomenon • Philosopher • Philosophy • philosophy of science • Physician • Political Economy • Politics • Positivism • Prediction • Principle • Probabilism • Probability • probability and statistics • Probability Theory • Probable error • Proportionality (mathematics) • Pure Mathematics • Quantitative genetics • Quantity • reason • result • Science • Scientist • second law of thermodynamics • Social Science • Social Statistics • Sociology • standard deviation • Statistic • Statistical hypothesis testing • Statistical Physics • Statistical regularity • statistical thinking • statistician • Statistics • theory • The Philosopher • thermodynamics • Thomas Kuhn • Thomas Robert Malthus • Thought • Uncertainty • Wilhelm Lexis • William Whewell • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21052-7 / 0691210527
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21052-0 / 9780691210520