SELECTED PAPERS BY FRNCIS YSIDRO EDGEWORTH

Box File at NORTH ROOM QUARTO SF 0.4 EDG

References are given as in S M Stigler, The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1986.


1877 New and Old Methods of Ethics, or "Physical Ethics" and "Methods of Ethics", London: James Parker [NOT in the J B Morrell Library].

1881 Mathematical Psychics: An Essay on the Application of Mathematics in the Moral Sciences, London: C Kegan Paul, repr. New York, NY: Augustus M Kelley [IN the J B Morrell Library at G 0.182 EDG].

1883a "The law of error", Philosophical Magazine (5th series) 16, 300-309.

1883b "The method of least squares", Philosophical Magazine (5th series) 16, 360-375.

1883c "On a method of ascertaining a change in the value of gold", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 46, 714-718.

1884 Review of Investigations in Currency and Finance by W S Jevons, Academy (1884 July 19), 38-39.

1885a "Observations and statistics: an essay on the theory of errors of observation and the first principles of statistics", Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 14, 138-169. Abstracted in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 5, 310-312; corrigendum in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 6, 101-102.

1885b "Methods of statistics", Jubilee Volume of the Statistical Society, 181-217.

1885c "On methods of ascertaining variations in the rate of births, deaths and marriages", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 48, 628-649. Abstracted in the Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1885), 1165-1166.

1885d "Calculus of probabilities applied to psychical research, I", Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 3, 190-199.

1886a "Progressive means", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 49, 469-475.

1886b "The law of error and the elimination of chance", Philosophical Magazine (5th series) 21, 308-324.

1886c "Problems in probabilities", Philosophical Magazine (5th series) 22, 371-384.

1887a "The empirical proof of the law of error", Philosophical Magazine (5th series) 24, 330-342.

1887b "On observations relating to several quantities", Hermathena 6, 279-285.

1887c Metretike: or, The Method of Measuring Probability and Utility, London: Temple [NOT in the J B Morrell Library].

1887d "On discordant observations", Philosophical Magazine (5th series) 23, 364-375.

1888a "The mathematical theory of banking", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 51, 113-127. Abstracted in Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1886), 777-779.

1888b "The value of authority tested by experiment", Mind 13, 146-148.

1888c "The statistics of examinations", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 51, 599-635.

1888d "Some new methods of measuring variation in general price", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 51, 346-368.

1889 Review of Natural Inheritance by F Galton, Nature 39, 603-604.

1890 "The element of chance in competetive examinations", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 53, 460-475 & 644-663. Abstracted in Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1890), 920.

1892a "Correlated averages", Philosophical Magazine (5th series) 34, 190-204.

1892b "The law of error and correlated averages", Philosophical Magazine (5th series) 34, 428-438 & 518-526.

1893a "A new method of treating correlated averages", Philosophical Magazine (5th series) 35, 63-64.

1893b "Exercises in the calculation of errors", Philosophical Magazine (5th series) 36, 98-111.

1893c "Note on the calculation of correlation between organs", Philosophical Magazine (5th series) 36, 350-351.

1893d "Statistical correlation between social phenomena", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 56, 670-675. Abstracted in the Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1893), 852-853.

1894a "Asymmetrical correlation between social phenomena", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 57, 563-568.

1894b "The asymmetrical probability curve", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 56, 271-272.

1895 "On some recent contributions to the theory of statistics", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 58, 506-515.

1896a "Bemerkungen Über die Kritik meiner "Methoden der Statistik" von Dr. v. Bortkiewitsch", Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (3rd series) 11, 271-274.

1896b "Eine Erwiderung", Jahrbücher fü'r Nationalökonomie und Statistik (3rd series) 12, 838-845.

1896c "Supplementary notes on statistics", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 59, 529-539.

1898 "Miscellaneous applications of the calculus of probabilities, contd.", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 61, 119-131.

1902 "Error, law of", in Encyclopaedia Britannica (10th edn), Vol. 28 (supplement to 9th ed., Vol. 4), 280-291.

1905 "The law of error", Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 20, 36-65 & 113-141.

1908-1909 "On the probable errors of frequency-constants", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 71, 381-397, 499-512 & 651-678 and 72, 81-90.

1911 "Probability", in Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th edn), Vol. 22, 376-403.

1922 "The philosophy of chance", Mind 31, 257-283.

1925 Papers Relating to Political Economy, vols 1-3, London: Macmillan, repr. New York, NY: Burt Franklin [IN the J B Morrell Library at G 0.4 EDG].

Revised 4 July 2004