Stigler S. Statistics on the Table...Concepts and Methods 2002

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This collection of essays examines in detail the history of some of the concepts involved in bringing statistical argument "to the table", and some of the pitfalls that have been encountered. Topics range from 17th century medicine and blood circulation to the meter of Virgil's poetry.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Statistics and Social Science
Karl Pearson and the Cambridge Economists
The Average Man Is 168 Years Old
Jevons as Statistician
Jevons on the King-Davenant Law of Demand
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, Statistician
Galtonian Ideas
Galton and Identification by Fingerprints
Stochastic Simulation in the Nineteenth Century
The History of Statistics in 1933
Regression toward the Mean
Statistical Concepts in Psychology
Some Seventeenth-Century Explorers
Apollo Mathematicus
The Dark Ages of Probability
John Craig and the Probability of History
Questions of Discovery
Stigler’s Law of Eponymy
Who Discovered Bayes’s Theorem?
Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, and Maximum Likelihood
Gauss and the Invention of Least Squares
Cauchy and the Witch of Agnesi
Karl Pearson and Degrees of Freedom
Questions of Standards
Statistics and Standards
The Trial of the Pyx
Normative Terminology
References
Credits
Index