‎Porter Theodore M‎
‎The Rise of Statistical Thinking 1820-1900‎

‎The Rise of Statistical Thinking 1820-1900‎

‎Princeton University Press Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1986 Book condition, Etat : Très bon paperback, editor's red and white wrappers, illustrated by a a graphical comparison of the provisions of a transatlantic liner grand In-8 1 vol. - 345 pages‎

‎ 1st paperback edition, 1986 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, List of abbreviations, Preface, Introduction, xii, Text, Conclusion, Index, 333 pages - 1. The social calculus : 1.1. Statistics as social science : The politics of political arithmetic - The numbers of a dynamic society - 1.2. The laws that govern chaos : Quetelet and the numerical regularities of society - Liberal politics and statistical laws - 1.3. From nature's urn to the insurance office - 2. The supreme law of unreason : 2.1. The errors of art and nature : Quetelet : Error and variation - 2.2. Social law and natural science : Molecules and social physics - Galton and the reality of variation - 3. The science of uncertainty : 3.1. Statistical law and human freedom : The opponents of statistics - Statistics and free will - The science of diversity - Statistik : Between nature and history - 3.2. Time's arrow and statistical uncertainty in physics and philosophy : Buckle's laws and Maxwell's Demon - Boltzmann, statistics, and irreversibility - Peirce's rejection of necessity - Peirce's rejection of necessity - 4. Polymathy and discipline : 4.1. The mathematics of statistics : Lexis's index of dispersion - Edgeworth : Mathematics and economies - 4.2. The roots of biometrical statistics : Galton's biometrical analogies - Regression and correlation - Pearson and mathematical biometry near fine copy, no markings‎