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Leading personalities in statistical sciences : from the seventeenth century to the present / edited by Norman L. Johnson and Samuel Kotz.
Van Pelt Library QA276.156 .L43 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Wiley series in probability and statistics. Probability and statistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Statisticians--Biography.
- Statisticians.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Wiley, [1997]
- Summary:
- This book presents a broad introduction to the history of statistics with accounts of the lives and achievements of over 100 prominent researchers in the development of statistical methods and applications over the past 300 years.
- Summarizes key events up to 1990.-- Uses a numbering format categorized by individual interest (e.g. probability theory, applications, etc.).
- Notes:
- "A Wiley-Interscience publication."
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0471163813
- OCLC:
- 187427706
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