The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900

by Theodore M. Porter

Book Overview

An essential work on the origins of statistics

The 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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691208425
• ISBN13: 9780691208428
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"