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11. Raphael Weldon (1860 - 1906) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Weldon/

    25 Jan 2024: Died. 13 April 1906. London, England. Summary. Raphael Weldon was a pioneer in the application of Statistics to biology and a founder of the journal Biometrika. . ... K Pearson, Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, 1860-1906, in E S Pearson and M G Kendall,

12. Maurice Kendall (1907 - 1983) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kendall_Maurice/

    25 Jan 2024: treatise on mathematical statistics] single-handedly Volume One of the Advanced Theory of Statistics was published in 1943, and Volume Two appeared in 1946. ... He also published A course in multivariate analysis and Cluster analysis as well a whole

13. Edward Waring (1736 - 1798) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    11 Sep 2023: Issled. 12 (1959), 431-456. P Bhattacharyya and S Sankar, History of Waring's problem, Math. ... 18 (2) (1991), 177. P Holgate, Studies in the history of probability and statistics XLI : Waring and Sylvester on random algebraic equations, Biometrika 73 (1

14. Stanley Jevons (1835 - 1882) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Jevons/

    25 Jan 2024: P J FitzPatrick, Leading British statisticians of the nineteenth century, in M G Kendall and R L Plackett (eds.), Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability II (London, 1977), ... 212. I Grattan-Guinness, Boole and his semifollower Jevons

15. Thomas Bayes (1702 - 1761) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    4 Jan 2024: Historia Math. 7 (4) (1980), 379-388. S M Stigler, The History of Statistics. ... Thomas Bayes's essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances, in E S Pearson and M G Kendall, Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability (London, 1970

16. R A Fisher (1890 - 1962) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    25 Jan 2024: In 1921 he introduced the concept of likelihood. The likelihood of a parameter is proportional to the probability of the data and it gives a function which usually has a single ... E S Pearson, Some early correspondence between W S Gosset, R A Fisher and

17. Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749 - 1827) - Biography - MacTutor History of …

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Laplace/

    30 Dec 2023: Sci. 1 (3) (1986), 359-378. S M Stigler, Studies in the history of probability and statistics XXXIV: Napoleonic statistics : the work of Laplace, Biometrika 62 (2) (1975), 503-517. ... S M Stigler, Studies in the history of probability and statistics

18. Abraham de Moivre (1667 - 1754) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    30 Dec 2023: Dupont looks at this problem, and Todhunter's solution, in [6]. In fact in A history of the mathematical theory of probability (London, 1865), Todhunter says that probability:-. ... R H Daw and E S Pearson, Studies in the history of probability and

19. Francis Galton (1822 - 1911) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    25 Jan 2024: P J FitzPatrick, Leading British statisticians of the nineteenth century, in M G Kendall and R L Plackett (eds.), Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability II (London, 1977), ... S M Stigler, The History of Statistics. The Measurement of

20. Simon Newcomb (1835 - 1909) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    25 Aug 2023: Simon Newcomb, Ph.D., LL.D., Amer. Math. Monthly 1 (1894), 252-256. S M Stigler, Simon Newcomb, Percy Daniell, and the history of robust estimation 1885-1920, Journal of the ... S M Stigler, Simon Newcomb, Percy Daniell, and the history of robust