Studies in the history of statistical method : with special reference to certain educational problems / Helen M. Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Helen M. (Helen Mary), 1891-1983, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Statistics--History.

Statistics.

Statistics--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 229 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Studies in the history of statistical method

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Williams & Wilkins Co., 1929.

Summary:

This study attempts to present the modern use of statistics against a background of the work of DeMoivre, Bernoulli, Gauss, Laplace, Quetelet, Galton, Ebbinghaus, Fechner, and many others. It is hoped that such a survey may be of use to students in various ways. It will furnish a historical perspective which will enable them better to understand and evaluate the present statistical practices and techniques employed in professional education, and it will provide a list of sources helpful to any student desiring to do intensive reading on a particular topic. It may also be of service to the man about to publish a new formula or a new term, by helping him discover what terms and formulas have already been proposed.

Contents:

Introduction

The normal curve

Moments

Percentiles

Correlation

The theory of two factors

Statistics as a subject of instruction in American universities

The origin of certain technical terms used in statistics.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.