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Title: A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications Before 1750
Publisher: Wiley Sep 2003
Publication Date: 2003
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0471471291
ISBN 13: 9780471471295
Binding: Taschenbuch
Condition: Neu
Dimensions: 234 millimeters width by 156 millimeters height by 33 millimeters depth
Weight: 916 grams

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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.

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

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