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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. ISBN for Vol. II: 0852642326. First Editions. 5 leaves, 481 pp; 5 leaves, 488 pp; 2 plates. Vol. I: Original simulated leather, large 8vo. Corners of covers slightly bumped, else Near Fine, without dust jacket. Griffin Books on Statistics. Vol. II: Original cloth, large 8vo. Ink stamp on verso of title page, card affixed to front flyleaf. Dust jacket flaps attached to covers. Label on dust jacket spine. Else Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. Vol. I is exceptional, reprinting 29 papers in facsimile. Pp. 134-53 = Thomas Bayes's 'An Essay Toward Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances' (Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London, 53, 370-418, 1763). Pp. 47-120 = Major Greenwood, Medical Statistics from Graunt to Farr, Fitzpatrick Lectures, 1941, 1943, reprinted from Biometrika 32-33, 1943 (the 1948 first edition in book form is Garrison-Morton 1716, a scarce title). There are also numerous biographical papers, on De Morgan, F. Y. Edgeworth, W. F. R. Weldon (pp. 323-54, by E. S. Pearson, divided into two parts, 1890-94 and 1885-1920), W. S. Gosset (a.k.a. 'Student'), Yule, Karl Pearson, R. A. Fisher, the Neyman-Pearson collaboration, etc. Vol. II reprints 32 papers -- it is a most worthy follow-up, whose contributors include Sambursky, N. L. Rabinovitch, Kendall (several papers), C. Eisenhart (on Boscovich, from the volume edited by L. L. Whyte), Lazarsfeld, S. Stigler (2), Lancaster, Sheynin (several), S. G. Brush ('A history of random processes. I. Brownian movement from Brown to Perrin', Arch. for Hist. of Exact Scis., 5, 1-36, 1968), et al. Includes a reprint of John Arbuthnot's (spelled 'Arbuthnott' here) 'An argument for Divine Providence.' (1710). 'Arbuthnot continued his scientific work submitting a paper to the Royal Society in 1710 discussing the slight excess of male births over female births in the years from 1629 to 1710. This paper, published in the Philosophical Transactions, is perhaps the first application of probability to social statistics and includes the first formal test of significance. In this paper Arbuthnot claims to demonstrate that divine providence, not chance, governs the sex ratio at birth. . Shoesmith explores the controversy which arose from Arbuthnot's paper, looking at the positions taken by 'sGravesande and Nicolaus(I) Bernoulli in 1712 and Nieuwentijt in 1715' (MacTutor History of Mathematics Web site, citing E. Shoesmith, 'The continental controversy over Arbuthnot's argument for divine providence', Historia Math. 14 (2) (1987), 133-146). Also includes: Maunder, 'Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley (1869-1953)', inaugural lecture, University of Exeter, 1972 (pp. 459-82); Paul J. FitzPatrick, 'Leading British statisticians of the nineteenth century' (J. Amer. Statist. Ass. 55, 38-70, 1960); Sheynin, 'Daniel Bernoulli's work on probability' (RETE Strukturgeschichte der Naturw. I, 1972, 273-300); SEAL, H. L., 'The historical development of the use of generating functions in probability theory' (Bull. de l'Association des Actuaries Suisses, 49, 209-28, 1949; good luck finding this in the original); KENDALL, David G., 'Branching processes since 1873' (J. Lond. Math. Soc. 41, 385-406, 1966); LANCASTER, 'Development of the notion of statistical dependence' (Math. Chronicle, N.Z., 2, 1-16, 1972); KOPF, E. W., 'Florence Nightingale as a statistician' (J. Amer. Statist. Ass. 15, 388-404, 1916).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Frontispiece, viii, 327 pp. Original cloth, large 8vo. Ink stamp on verso of title page and front pastedown, else Near Fine, in very good dust jacket (unclipped). Reprints 21 papers, with a complete, 112-item bibliography (pp. 324-7).

London, Cambridge University Press, 1966-67. Original full cloth. Royal 8vo. VIII,429,VI,327,299 pp. Reprints of more than 60 papers plus bibliography.