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A History of Mathematical Statistics From 1750 to 1930
A. HALD, 1997
Chichester, Wiley
pp. xvii + 795, 80.95
ISBN 0 471 17912 4
Is a sequel to his History of Probability and Statistics and their Applications before 1750, Hald covers the major developments in parametric statistical inference from the late eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. By translating the ideas into modern terminology he makes them accessible and through the descriptions of the characters and their interactions makes the development of ideas come alive.
The book is divided into four sections based on the principle developments. This serves to make the ideas the central theme while still allowing the reader to trace the contributions of...