Darwin, Galton and the Statistical Enlightenment

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 469-482

  Stigler, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

C. Darwin; F. Galton; Hiram Stanley; History of statistics; Quincunx

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954787586     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00643.x     Document Type: Article

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