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Book Information
Author(s):
Andrew I. Dale
Title:
Most honorable remembrance: The life and works of Thomas Bayes
Additional book information:
Springer-Verlag,
New York,
2003,
xxiv + 668,
$99.00,
ISBN 0-387-00499-8
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- Hald, Anders (1998). The History of Mathematical Statistics from 1750 to 1930. Wiley, New York. MR 1619032 (99i:01004)
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- Holland, J. D (1962). The Reverend Thomas Bayes, F. R. S. (1702 - 1761). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A 125, 451 - 461.
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- Reid, Constance (1993). The Search for E. T. Bell. MAA.
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- Stigler, Stephen M. (1986). The History of Statistics. Harvard University Press. MR 0852410 (88a:01004)
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Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
S.
L.
Zabell
Affiliation:
Northwestern University
Email:
zabell@math.northwestern.edu
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
42
(2005),
555-559.
MSC
(2000):
Primary 01A50;
Secondary 01A75
PII:
S 0273-0979(05)01068-2
Posted:
April 7, 2005
Copyright of article:
Copyright
2005,
American Mathematical Society
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