AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS
IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Edited by S M Stigler and I M Cohen (SF STI)
Volume I
- C Abbe, A historical note on the method of least squares
- R J Adcock, Note on the method of least squares
- R Adrain, Research concerning the probabilities of the errors
which happen in making observations
- R Adrain, Investigation of the figure of the earth, and of the
gravity in different latitudes
- R Adrain, Research concerning the mean diameter of the earth
- G B Airy, Letter from Professor Airy, Astronomer Royal to the
Editor
- J Anderson (ed.), E L. DeForest
- M J Babb, Robert Adrain Man and Mathematician
- J L Coolidge, Robert Adrain and the beginnings of American
mathematics
- E L DeForest, Interpolation and adjustment of series
- E L DeForest, On an unsymmetrical probability curve
- E L DeForest, On an unsymmetrical law of error in the position of
a point in space
- E L DeForest, On the law of error in target shooting
- L A Goodman and W H Kruskal, Measures of association for cross
classifications II: Further discussions and references
- C H Kummel, Reduction of observation equations which contain more
than one observed quantity
- M Merriman, On the history of the method of least squares
Volume II
- S Newcomb. Notes on the theory of probabilities
- S Newcomb, Note on the frequency of use of different digits in
natural numbers
- S Newcomb, A generalized theory of combination of observations so
as to obtain the best result
- S Newcomb, The reminiscences of an astronomer
- K Pearson, On skew probability curves
- B Peirce, Criterion for the rejection of doubtful observations
- B Peirce and C Schott, On Peirce's criterion
- C S Peirce, On the theory of errors of observation
- C S Peirce, Notes on the theory of the economy of research
- C S Peirce, The numerical measure of the success of predictions
- C S Peirce and J Jastrow, On small differences of sensation
- S M Stigler, Simon Newcomb, Percy Daniell, and the history of
robust estimation
- E Wigglesworth. A table showing the probability of the duration,
the decrement, and the expectation of life, in the states of
Massachussetts and New Hampshire
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E B Wilson and M H Hilferty, Note on C.S. Peirce's experimental discussion of the law of errors
- J Winlock, On Professor Airy's objection to Peirce's criterion
- H H Wolfenden, On the development of formulae for grauation by
linear compounding, with special reference to the work of Erastus L.
DeForest
- R S Woodward, On the computation of probable error
Revised 4 July 2004