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A history of probability and statistics and their applications before 1750 /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A history of probability and statistics and their applications before 1750 /Anders Hald.
Author:	Hald, Anders,
Published:	Hoboken, NJ :Wiley-Interscience,c2003.
Description:	[xiv], 586, [7] p. ;cm.
Notes:	"A Wiley-Interscience publication."
Series:	Wiley series in probability and statistics
Subject:	ProbabilitiesHistory17th century.
Online resource:	http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/wiley033/89033269.html
Online resource:	http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/onix04/89033269.html
Online resource:	http://libsw.nuk.edu.tw/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/0471725161
ISBN:	0471471291 (print. ed.)

A history of probability and statistics and their applications before 1750 /
Hald, Anders,1913-

A history of probability and statistics and their applications before 1750 /[electronic resource] /Anders Hald. - Hoboken, NJ :Wiley-Interscience,c2003. - [xiv], 586, [7] p. ;cm. - Wiley series in probability and statistics.

"A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The book and its relation to other works -- A sketch of the background in mathematics and natural philosophy -- Early concepts of probability and chance -- Cardano and Liber de Ludo Aleae, c. 1565 -- The foundation of probability theory by Pascal and Fermat in 1654 -- Huygens and De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae, 1657 -- John Graunt and the Observations made upon the bills of mortality, 1662 -- The probabilistic interpretation of Graunt's life table -- The early history of life insurance mathematics -- Mathematical models and statistical methods in astronomy from Hipparchus to Kepler and Galileo -- The Newtonian revolution in mathematics and science -- Miscellaneous contributions between 1857 and 1708 -- The great leap forward, 1708-1718 : a survey -- New solutions to old problems, 1708-1718 -- James Bernoulli and Ars Conjectandi, 1713 -- Bernoulli's Theorem -- Tests of significance based on the sex ratio at birth and the binomial distribution, 1712-1713 -- Montmort and the Essay d'Analyse sur les Jeux de Hazard, 1708 and 1713 -- The problem of coincidences and the compound probability theorem -- The problem of the duration of play, 1708-1718 -- Nicholas Bernoulli -- De Moivre and the Doctrine of chances, 1718, 1738, and 1756 -- The problem of the duration of play and the method of difference equations -- De Moivre's normal approximation to the binomial distribution, 1733 -- The insurance mathematics of de Moivre and Simpson, 1725-1756.

Electronic reproduction.
Somerset, New Jersey :
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Available via World Wide Web.

ISBN: 0471471291 (print. ed.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

184639
Probabilities
--History--17th century.Subjects--Index Terms:

Statistics (general)

LC Class. No.: QA273.A4 / H35 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 519.2/09

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