A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750 (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) - Softcover

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Hald, Anders

 
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"This is a marvelous book . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in the history of statistics, or in understanding how modern ideas have developed, will find this an invaluable resource."
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About the Author

Anders Hald was formerly a Professor of Statistics at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

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WILEY-INTERSCIENCE PAPERBACK SERIES

The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists.

From the Reviews of History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750

"This is a marvelous book . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in the history of statistics, or in understanding how modern ideas have developed, will find this an invaluable resource."
Short Book Reviews of ISI

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WILEY-INTERSCIENCE PAPERBACK SERIES

The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists.

From the Reviews of History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750

This is a marvelous book . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in the history of statistics, or in understanding how modern ideas have developed, will find this an invaluable resource.
-Short Book Reviews of ISI

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ISBN 10:  0471502308 ISBN 13:  9780471502302
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 1990
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