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A History of Parametric Statistical Inference from Bernoulli to Fisher, 1713-1935

By: Anders Hald(Author)
223 pages, b/w illustrations
Publisher: Springer Nature
A History of Parametric Statistical Inference from Bernoulli to Fisher, 1713-1935
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A History of Parametric Statistical Inference from Bernoulli to Fisher, 1713-1935 offers a detailed history of parametric statistical inference. Covering the period between James Bernoulli and R.A. Fisher, it examines: binomial statistical inference; statistical inference by inverse probability; the central limit theorem and linear minimum variance estimation by Laplace and Gauss; error theory, skew distributions, correlation, sampling distributions; and the Fisherian Revolution. Lively biographical sketches of many of the main characters are featured throughout, including Laplace, Gauss, Edgeworth, Fisher, and Karl Pearson. Also examined are the roles played by DeMoivre, James Bernoulli, and Lagrange.

Contents

- Introduction
- The Three Revolutions in Parametric Statistical Inference
- James Bernoulli's Law of Large Numbers for the Binomial, 1713, and its Generalization
- De Moivre's Normal Approximation to the Binomial, 1733, and its Generalizations
- Bayes's Posterior Distribution of the Binomial Parameter and His Rule for Inductive Inference, 1764
- Laplace's Theory of Inverse Probability, 1774-1786
- A Nonprobabilistic Interlude: The Fitting of Equations to Data, 1750-1805
- Gauss's Derivation of the Normal Distribution and the Method of Least Squares, 1809
- Credibility and Confidence Intervals by Laplace and Gauss
- The Multivariate Posterior Distribution
- Edgeworth's Genuine Inverse Method and the Equivalence of Inverse and Direct Probability in Large Samples, 1908 and 1909
- Criticisms of Inverse Probability
- Laplace's Central Limit Theorem and Linear Minimum Variance Estimation
- Gauss's Theory of Linear Minimum Variance Estimation
- The Development of a Frequentist Error Theory
- Skew Distributions and the Method of Moments
- Normal Correlation and Regression
- Sampling Distributions Under Normality, 1876-1908
- Fisher's Early papers, 1912-1921
- The revolutionary paper, 1922
- Studentization, the F Distribution and the Analysis of Variance, 1922-1925
- The Likelihood Function, Ancillarity and Conditional Inference
- References
- Subject Index
- Author Index

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By: Anders Hald(Author)
223 pages, b/w illustrations
Publisher: Springer Nature
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