Material on Statistics

Although at present this archive does not contain any specially written article on Statistics, nevertheless there is a wealth of information on the history of Statistics. We list below the main places where this information is to be found.

In Additional Material

Bertrand	Introduction to Bertrand's work on probability
Fisher	Preface to R A Fisher: the life of a scientist
Fisher	R A Fisher's Introduction to Statistical Methods
Fisher	R A Fisher's History of Statistics
M G Kendall	Hiawatha Designs an Experiment
Quetelet	Adolphe Quetelet on crime
Savage	Leonard J Savage's Foundations of Statistics
	Venice and statistics
	Journal of the Statistical Society of London

Statisticians

Anderson
Bortkiewicz
Cochran
George Dantzig
David
Edgeworth
Feller
Fisher
Galton
Gnedenko

Gosset
Hollerith
Jevons
David Kendall
Maurice Kendall
Kolmogorov
Paul Lévy
Lexis
Linnik
Lukacs

Neyman
Nightingale
Pearson
Egon Pearson
Pillai
Quetelet
Scheffe
Shewhart
Slutsky
Tinbergen

Tukey
Wald
Weldon
Wilks
Winkler
Wishart
Wolfowitz
Yates
Youden
Yule

Statistical Societies

American Statistical Association
Australian Statistical Society
Bulgarian Statistical Society
Canadian Statistical Society
Estonian Statistical Society
Finnish Statistical Society

German Statistical Society
Korean Statistical Society
Royal Statistical Society
Statistical Society of Australia
Statistical Society of Canada
Swiss Statistical Society

Article by: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson

History Topics Index	Alphabetical list of History Topics
Main index	Biographies Index
Famous curves index	Birthplace Maps
Chronology	Time lines
Mathematicians of the day	Anniversaries for the year
Search Form	Societies, honours, etc

JOC/EFR August 2006

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