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Book Information:
Author:
Andrew I. Dale
Title:
Most honorable remembrance: The life and works of Thomas Bayes
Additional book information:
Springer-Verlag,
New York,
2003,
xxiv + 668 pp.,
ISBN 0-387-00499-8,
$99.00$
1. Barnard, G. A. (1958). Thomas Bayes - a biographical note, Biometrika 45, 293-315.
D. R. Bellhouse, The Reverend Thomas Bayes, FRS: a biography to celebrate the tercentenary of his birth, Statist. Sci. 19 (2004), no. 1, 3–43. With comments by Andrew Dale, A. W. F. Edwards, D. V. Lindley and Stephen M. Stigler and a rejoinder by the author. MR 2082145, DOI 10.1214/088342304000000189
Donald A. Gillies, Was Bayes a Bayesian?, Historia Math. 14 (1987), no. 4, 325–346 (English, with French and Italian summaries). MR 919064, DOI 10.1016/0315-0860(87)90065-6
Anders Hald, A history of mathematical statistics from 1750 to 1930, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics: Texts and References Section, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1998. A Wiley-Interscience Publication. MR 1619032
5. Holland, J. D (1962). The Reverend Thomas Bayes, F. R. S. (1702 - 1761). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A 125, 451 - 461.
6. Reid, Constance (1993). The Search for E. T. Bell. MAA.
Stephen M. Stigler, The history of statistics, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1986. The measurement of uncertainty before 1900. MR 852410
8. Winks, Robin, ed. (1969). The Historian as Detective. Harper, New York.
9. Zabell, S. L. (1996). The continuum of inductive methods revisited. In The Cosmos of Science (J. Earman and J. Norton, eds.), Univ. Pittsburgh Press/Univ. Konstanz, pp. 351-385.
- 1.
- Barnard, G. A. (1958). Thomas Bayes - a biographical note, Biometrika 45, 293-315.
- 2.
- Bellhouse, D. R. (2004). The Reverend Thomas Bayes FRS: A Biography to Celebrate the Tercentenary of his Birth, Statistical Science 19, 3-43. MR 2082145
- 3.
- Gillies, D. A. (1987). Was Bayes a Bayesian?, Historia Math. 14, 325-346. MR 0919064
- 4.
- Hald, Anders (1998). The History of Mathematical Statistics from 1750 to 1930. Wiley, New York. MR 1619032
- 5.
- Holland, J. D (1962). The Reverend Thomas Bayes, F. R. S. (1702 - 1761). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A 125, 451 - 461.
- 6.
- Reid, Constance (1993). The Search for E. T. Bell. MAA.
- 7.
- Stigler, Stephen M. (1986). The History of Statistics. Harvard University Press. MR 0852410
- 8.
- Winks, Robin, ed. (1969). The Historian as Detective. Harper, New York.
- 9.
- Zabell, S. L. (1996). The continuum of inductive methods revisited. In The Cosmos of Science (J. Earman and J. Norton, eds.), Univ. Pittsburgh Press/Univ. Konstanz, pp. 351-385.
Review Information:
Reviewer:
S. L. Zabell
Affiliation:
Northwestern University
Email:
zabell@math.northwestern.edu
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
42 (2005), 555-559
Published electronically:
April 7, 2005
Review copyright:
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American Mathematical Society
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