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The Emergence of Probability (2nd ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-86655-2. Hald, Anders (2003). A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. ISBN 0-471-47129-1. Hald, Anders (1998). A History of Mathematical Statistics from 1750 to 1930. New York: Wiley. ISBN 0-471 ...
Early probability theory and statistics was systematized in the 19th century and statistical reasoning and probability models were used by social scientists to advance the new sciences of experimental psychology and sociology, and by physical scientists in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.
John Aldrich (2008), Figures from the History of Probability and Statistics; John Aldrich (2008), Probability and Statistics on the Earliest Uses Pages; Michael Friendly and Daniel J. Denis (2008). "Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization: An illustrated chronology of innovations"
Probability and statistics are two closely related fields in mathematics, sometimes combined for academic purposes. They are covered in several articles: Probability; Statistics; Glossary of probability and statistics; Notation in probability and statistics; Timeline of probability and statistics
Category: History of probability and statistics. ... Timeline of probability and statistics This page was last edited on 5 August 2018, at 12:33 (UTC). Text ...
Probability and Statistics EBook; Edwin Thompson Jaynes. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. Preprint: Washington University, (1996). – HTML index with links to PostScript files and PDF (first three chapters) People from the History of Probability and Statistics (Univ. of Southampton)
A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-72517-6. Maĭstrov, Leonid (1974), Probability Theory: A Historical Sketch, Academic Press; Maseres, Francis; Bernoulli, Jakob; Wallis, John (1798), The Doctrine of Permutations and Combinations, British Critic
Probability theory or probability calculus is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations , probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expressing it through a set of axioms .