In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Douglas Rugh , D.Rugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Has anyone run across a good book on the history of statistics. I just >finished Statistics as Principled Argument and now I would like to trace >the thought processes back in time.
There are two books by Stephen M. Stigler, one covering the period before 1900, and the other called "Statistics on the table", which came out in 1999. -- This address is for information only. I do not claim that these views are those of the Statistics Department or of Purdue University. Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (765)494-6054 FAX: (765)494-0558 . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
