Introduction

This page is swiped from Peter M Lee. The original is at the University of York. I translated the original LaTeX to pdf.

Articles

• Portraits of Statisticians

• Brief Lives of Statisticians

• The essay

• The "Billiard Table"

• Figure illustrating Prop. 10

• A letter from the late Reverend Mr. Thomas Bayes, F.R.S. to John Canton, M.A. and F.R.S.

• Libellus de Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae

• Chapter II. Statistics

• Review by Augustus De Morgan

• On Least Squares

• Pascal's Wager

• Anonymous Review from The Athenaeum
• Review by Augustus De Morgan

• Treatise on Life Annuities
• Biography by Robert Gibbes Barnwell

• Advantages of the Mean
• Fi">Figure from above article

• Four views of an astragulus Plate 1 from F N David, Games, Gods and Gambling, London: Griffin 1962.

• General Bill of Mortality for the Year 1665 Illustrated on p.101 of F N David, Games, Gods and Gambling, London: Griffin 1962.

• Tables from Edmond Halley's paper "An estimate of the degrees of mortality of mankind, drawn from curious tables of the births and funerals at the city of Breslaw; with an attemptto ascertain the price of Annuities upon lives", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 17 (1693), 596-610. Reprinted, edited with an introduction by L.J. Reid, Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press 1942.

• Retail Stock Shrinkage "Mastering Management. Applied Statistics" by S Howell, Financial Times 1996 July 5.

• A 5 x 5 Latin square laid out at Bettgelert Forest in 1929 to study the effect of exposure on Sitka spruce, Norway spruce, Japaneses larch, Pinus contorta and Beech. Photograph taken about 1945.

  Plate 6 from J F Box, R.A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist, New York: Wiley 1978.

• Layout of Bettgelert Experiment Plate 7 from J F Box, R.A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist, New York: Wiley 1978.

• Scene at Gare Montparnasse, 22 October 1895 From front cover of J R Taylor, An Introduction to Error Analysis, Oxford University Press 1982 for Mill Valley, CA: University Science Books.

• C J Minard's diagram showing the fate of Napoleon's army in Russia From E J Marey, La Méthode Graphique (Paris 1885), p.73, reproduced on p.41 of E R Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press 1983.

• C J Minard's diagram showing the fate of Napoleon's army in Russia Based on E J Marey, La Méthode Graphique (Paris 1885), p.73, reproduced on p.41 of E R Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press 1983. This version is due to Aaron Walburg and Stephen Hartzog (1996).

• A tenth century graph From H Gray Funkhauser, "A note on a tenth century graph", Osiris 1 (1936), 260-262, reproduced on p.28 of E R Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press 1983.

• Exports and imports of Scotland From William Playfair, The Commercial and Political Atlas, London 1786 reproduced on p.33 of E R Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press 1983.

• The quincunx Figures 7, 8 and 9 from F Galton, Natural Inheritance, London: Macmillan 1889, Chapter V, p.63.

• The two-stage quincunx and the law of reversion From F Galton, "Typical laws of heredity", Nature 15 (1877), 492-495, 512-514 and 532-533 = Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 8 (1877) 282-301, reprinted in S M Stigler, The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1900, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1986, CFig. 8.6, p.280.

• Illustration of regression Plate X from F Galton, "Regression towards mediocrity in hereditary stature", Journal of the Anthropological Institute 15 (1886), 246-263.

• The regression ellipse Figure on pae 248 of F Galton, "Regression towards mediocrity in hereditary stature", Journal of the Anthropological Institute 15 (1886), 246-263.

• The `Pascal' triangle as depicted in A.D. 1303 From the front of Chu Shi-Chieh's Ssu Yuan Yü Chien. It is entitled `The Old Method Chart of the Seven Multiplying Squares' and tabulates the binomial coefficients up to the eighth power.
  Reproduced as Fig. 53 on p. 55 of The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China. An abridgment by Colin A. Ronan of Joseph Needham's original text. Volume 2: Volume III and a section of Volume IV, Part I of the major series, Cambridge University Press 1981.