Author: Stephen M. Stigler
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674009790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
This lively collection of essays examines statistical ideas with an ironic eye for their essence and what their history can tell us for current disputes. The topics range from 17th-century medicine and the circulation of blood, to the cause of the Great Depression, to the determinations of the shape of the Earth and the speed of light.