Statistics and statistical methods

The Cambridge History of Science: The Modern Social Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 238-250

  Porter, Theodore M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84927978725     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CHOL9780521594424.015     Document Type: Chapter

References (15)

1. Theodore M. Porter, Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995).
2. Eric Brian, La mesure de l’Etat: Administrateurs et g´eom`etres au XVIIIe si`ecle(Paris: Albin Michel, 1994).
3. Stephen Stigler, The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before1900(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986).
4. Theodore M. Porter, The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986), chap. 2.
5. Ian Hacking, The Taming of Chance(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), chap. 14.
6. Francis Galton, Natural Inheritance(London: Macmillan, 1889), p. 62.
7. Donald Mac Kenzie, Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1981).
8. Mary Morgan, The History of Econometric Ideas(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
9. Judy Klein, Statistical Visions in Time: A History of Time-Series Analysis(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
10. Gail A.Hornstein, “Quantifying Psychological Phenomena:Debates, Dilemmas and Implications,” in The Rise of Experimentation in American Psychology, ed. Jill G. Morawski (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988), pp. 1-34.
11. Olivier Martin, LaMesure de l’esprit: Origines et d´eveloppement de la psychom´etrie, 1900-1950(Paris: L’Harmattan, 1997).
12. Kurt Danziger, Constructing the Subject: Historical Origins of Psychological Research(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).
13. Alain Desrosieres, The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998), chap. 7.
14. Gerd Gigerenzer, Zeno Swijtink, Theodore Porter, Lorraine Daston, John Beatty, and Lorenz Kr¨uger, The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), chaps. 3, 6.
15. Gerd Gigerenzer et al., Empire of Chance; Porter, Trust in Numbers.