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Publications in 2007 in the History of Probability and Statistics

© Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique Electronic Journal for History of Probability and Statistics

Every year the JEHPS lists the books and articles on the history of probability and statistics that have appeared in the previous year. Inevitably there will be omissions but these can be made good. If you know of any in the list below, please contact me, John Aldrich, at john.aldrich@soton.ac.uk and I will put things right.


Introduction

The literature on the history of probability and statistics is very dispersed, with contributions appearing both in outlets specialising in history and in outlets specialising in probability and statistics. The present list covers contributions of both kinds and aims to be comprehensive. At the same time, by considering only the history of probability and statistics, it is more focussed than the existing resources.

Besides general search engines like

ISI Web of Kowledge

Google scholar

the principal existing resources are

Current Index to Statistics

Mathematical Reviews

Zentralblatt MATH

Historia Mathematica

Isis

The Current Index to Statistics lists publications, journal articles and books. Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH generally summarise each publication. Historia Mathematica has abstracts of recent publications in each issue. Isis publishes a Current Bibliography as the fifth issue each year. This is not included in the electronic version of the journal but its contents form part of the more comprehensive History of Science and Technology database supported by the RLG. The entries below give titles and, where available, a link to an MR review.

 

 


Books and reviews of books

Books

Brian, E. and M. Jaisson (2007) Le sexisme de la première heure : Hasard et sociologie de Liber - Raisons d'agir Amazon

Charpentier, E., A. Lesne and N. Nikolski (2007) Kolmogorov's Heritage in Mathematics, Springer. Amazon

Cudeck, R. and R. C. MacCallum (Editors) (2007) Factor Analysis at 100: Historical Developments and Future Directions, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc, US Amazon

Handwerk, A. and H. Willems (2007) Wolfgang Doeblin: A mathematician rediscovered, Springer DVD-ROM Amazon

Lehmann,E. (2007) Reminiscences of a Statistician: The Company I Kept, Springer. Amazon

Louçã, F. (2007) The Years of High Econometrics: A Short History of the Generation That Reinvented Economics, Routledge.Amazon

Meitzen August (1886/2007) Geschichte, Theorie und Technik der Statistik, Vdm Verlag Dr. Mller.


Reviews

These are ordered alphabetically by the name of the author of the book under review. Some of the books appeared in the 2005/6 list. 

Anderson, K. (2005) Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology. Reviewed by M. D. Eddy British Journal for the History of Science, 40 (2), (2007), 295-297.

Barbut, M., B. Locker; and L. Mazliak (editors) (2004) Lévy, Paul; and Fréchet, Maurice. 50 ans de correspondance en 107 lettres. Reviewed by Roman Duda in Zentralblatt MATH 1096.01011.

Bernoulli, J. (2005) The Art of Conjecturing, together with Letter to a Friend on Sets in Court Tennis Translated with an introduction and notes by Edith Dudley Sylla. Reviewed by D. Bellhouse, Historia Mathematica, 33, (2007), 435-436.

Bulmer, M. (2003) Francis Galton: Pioneer of Heredity and Biometry. Reviewed by V. B. Smocovitis, Isis, 98, (2007), 398-399.

Courtault, J.-M. and Your Kabanov (2002) Louis Bachelier: Aux origines de la finance mathématique. Reviewed by R. W. Dimand, History of Political Economy 39 (2), (2007), 318-320.

Hacking, I. (2006) The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction, and Statistical Inference, second editon. Reviewed by L. Daston, Isis, 98 (4), 2007, 801.

Hahn, R. (2005) Pierre Simon Laplace 1749-1827: A Determined Scientist. Reviewed by R. Fox British Journal for the History of Science, 40 (4), (2007), 613-614

Maas, H. (2005) William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics. Reviewed by S. Cook History of Political Economy, 39 (2), (2007), 317-318.

Maas, H. (2005) William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics. Reviewed by P. Mirowski British Journal for the History of Science, 40 (2), (2007), 297-298.

Playfair, W. (2005) The Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary, edited and introduced by Howard Wainer and Ian Spence. Reviewed by H. Maas, History of Political Economy, 39 (2), (2007), 324-325.

Porter, T. M. (2004) Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age. Reviewed by P. W. Hunter Historia Mathematica, 33, (2007), 233-236.

Schweber, L. (2006) Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830-1885. Reviewed by C. Renwick British Journal for the History of Science, 40 (4), (2007), 616-618.

 


Articles in Journals and Books

The Journal Electronique is the only journal dedicated to the history of probability and statistics and is already the most important publication in terms of the number of articles it publishes. Other contributions are widely scattered across history of science journals, statistics journals, mathematics journals and natural and social science journals. Note that sometimes MR lists an article without reviewing it and sometimes presents the bibliography without the review. Where a link is given there is something—either a review or a bibliography.

Aldrich, J. (2007) Information and Economics in Fisher’s Design of Experiments, International Statistical Review, 75, 131-149.

Aldrich, J. (2007) But you have to remember P. J. Daniell of Sheffield Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (2).

Anderson, T. W. (2007) Multiple discoveries: Distribution of roots of determinantal equations, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 137, (11), 3240-3248.

Baccini, A. (2007) Edgeworth on the foundations of ethics and probability, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 14 (1), 79- 96.

Baker, S. G., S. Barnett and K. Peirce (2007) Youden, and Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves, American Statistician, 61 (4), 343-346.

Bellhouse, D. R (2007) Lord Stanhope's papers on the Doctrine of Chances, Historia Mathematica, 33, 173-186. MR2320098

Bellhouse, D. R (2007) The Problem of Waldergrave, Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (2).

Bellhouse, D. R and C. Genest (2007) Maty's Biography of Abraham De Moivre, Translated, Annotated and Augmented, Statistical Science, 22, 109-136. Project Euclid

Benzi, M., and Seneta, E. (2007) Francesco Paolo Cantelli, International Statistical Review, 75, 127-130.

Bjerkholt, O. (2007) Writing “The Probability Approach” with Nowhere to Go: Haavelmo in the United States, 1939-44, Econometric Theory, 775-837.

Bjerkholt, O. (2007) Ragnar Frisch's Business cycle Approach: The Genesis of the Propagation and Impulse Model, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 14, 449-486.

Boianovsky, M. and G. Erreygers (2007) Early Contributions to Quantitative Business Cycle Research: An Introduction, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 14, 415-421.

Boianovsky, M. and H.-M. Trautwein (2007) Johan Åkerman vs. Ragnar Frisch on Quantitative Business Cycle Analysis, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 14, 487-517.

Boutroux, P. (2007) Les origines du calcul des probabilités reprinted from the La Revue du Mois with commentary by L. Mazliak Borel, probability and La Revue du Mois Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (1).

Ceccarelli, G. (2007) The Price for Risk-Taking : Marine Insurance and Probability, Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (1)

Ceccarelli G. (2007) Le jeu comme contrat et le risicum chez Olivi, Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3  (2).

Champkin, J. (2007) Henry Mayhew: the Statistical Dickens, Significance, 4, 136-138.

Chatterji, S. D. (2007) Lindeberg's Central Limit Theorem à la Hausdorff, Expositiones Mathematicae, 25 (3), 215-233. MR2345178

Coumet, E. (2007)  Le problème des partis avant Pascal/ The problem of points before Pascal, Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (1).

Coumet, E. (2007) La théorie du hasard est-elle née par hasard ? Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (1).

David, H. A. and W. A. Fuller (2007) Sir Maurice Kendall (1907-1983): A Centenary Appreciation, American Statistician, 61 (1), 41-46

Denis, D. J. and K. R.Docherty (2007) Late Nineteenth Century Britain : the rise of multivariate analysis, Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (2).

Diamandopoulos A., Goudas C. Pavlos; Kassimatis I. Theodoros (2007) Early Evidence-Based Medicine: Clues on Statistical Analysis in Medicine from Galen's Writings, American Statistician, 61 (2), 154-158.

Erreygersy, and G. A. Jolink (2007) Perturbation, Networks and Business Cycles: Bernard Chait’s Pioneering Work in Econometrics, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 543-571.

Farebrother R. W. and C. Elliott Name Index to Elizabeth Hill's Biographical Essay on Roger Boscovich, Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (2)

Fienberg, S. E. and Alessandro Rinaldo (2007) Three centuries of Categorical Data Analysis: Log-linear Models and Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 137, 3430-3445. MR2363267

Föllmer, H. (2007) On Kiyosi Itô's Work and its Impact, International Congress of Mathematicians. Vol. I, 109-123, Eur. Math. Soc., Zürich, 2007. MR2334188

Friendly, M. (2007). A brief history of data visualization. In Handbook of Computational Statistics: Data Visualization C. Chen, W. Härdle and A. Unwin, eds.) III. Springer, Heidelberg.

Friendly M. (2007) A.-M. Guerry's Moral Statistics of France: Challenges for Multivariable Spatial Analysis, Statistical Science, 22 (3), 368-399. Project Euclid

Fukushima, M. (2007) On the Works of Kyosi Ito and Stochastic Analysis, Japanese Journal of Mathematics, 3, 45-53.

Glenna, L. L. Margaret A. Gollnick, and Stephen S. Jones (2007) Eugenic Opportunity Structures: Teaching Genetic Engineering at US Land-Grant Universities Since 1911, Social Studies of Science, 37, 281-296.

Godin, B. (2007) From Eugenics to Scientometrics: Galton, Cattell, and Men of Science, Social Studies of Science, 37, 691-728.

Goudie, I. B. J. and M. Goudie (2007) Who Captures the Marks for the Petersen Estimator?, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 170, 85-852

Graber, F. (2007) Obvious Decisions: Decision-making among French Ponts-et-Chaussées Engineers around 1800, Social Studies of Science, 37, 935-960.

Haavelmo, T. and O Bjerkholt The Nature and Logic of Econometric Inference: The 1942 Hillside Lecture, Econometric Theory, 838.

Hall, N. S. (2007) R. A. Fisher and his advocacy of randomization, Journal of the History of Biology, 40, 295-325.

Hoffmann, C. (2007) Constant Differences: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, the Concept of the Observer in Early Nineteenth-century Practical Astronomy and the History of the Personal Equation, British Journal for the History of Science, 40 (3), 333-365.

Iglewicz, B. (2007) Einstein's First Published Paper, American Statistician, 61 (4), 339-342.

Labbe Institutionalizing the Statistics of Nationality in Prussia in the 19th Century (from local bureaucracy to state-level census of population). Centaurus, 49 (4), 289-306.

Malinvaud, E. (2007) About the role, in older days, of econometrics in quantitative economics, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 14, 423-448.

Martin, T (2007) Des dangers de l'humour en histoire des sciences, Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (1).

Mazliak, L. (2007) On the exchanges between Wolfgang Doeblin and Bohuslav Hostinsky, Revue d'histoire des mathématiques, 13 (1), 155-180.

Mazliak, L. (2007) Ten Letters from Wolfgang Doeblin to Bohuslav Hostinsky Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (1).

Mazliak (2007) An Introduction to Karel Vorovka's philosophy of randomness with English translation of the following documents, Vorovka’s artcle Poznámka k problemu ruinováni hráců (Observation on the problem of the gambler's ruin and Bohuslav Hostinsky's eulogy O cinnosti Karla Vorovky ve filosofii matematiky (On Karel Vorovka's contribution to the philosophy of mathematics) Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (2).

McKean, H. (2007) Recollections of K. Itô and Kyoto 1957/58, Japanese Journal of Mathematics, 2 (1), 79--81. MR2295610

Meusnier, N. (2007) Le problème des partis peut-il etre d'origine arabo-musulmane?, Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (1).

Meusnier, N. (2007) Une controverse sur un théorème ‘probabiliste’ d'Oresme, Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (1).

Meusnier, N. (2007) A propos de l'utilisation par Oresme d'une argumentation probabiliste Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (1).

Meusnier, N. (2007) Le problème des partis bougede plus en plus Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (1).

Meusnier, N. and S. Piron (2007) Medieval probabilities : Claims for a Reappraisal, Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (1).

Morini, S. (2007) Bruno de Finetti : l'origine de son subjectivisme, Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (2).

Mudholkara, G. S., A. D. Hutsonb and M. P. McDermotta (2007) Life and legacy of Samarendra Nath Roy 1906-1964, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 137 (1), 3208-3212.

O'Rourke, K. (2007) An Historical Perspective on Meta-analysis: Dealing Quantitatively with Varying Study Results, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 100, 579-582.

Perkins, E. (2007) Kiyosi Ito, Inaugural Recipient of the Gauss Prize 2006, CMS Notes.

Piron, S. (2007) Traitement de l'incertitude commerciale dans la scolastique médiévale Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (2).

Porter, T. M. (2007) Introduction: The Statistical Office as a Social Observatory, Centaurus, 49 (4), 258-260.

Prosperin, E. and N. Collin (2007) Document: On Probable Knowledge, Science in Context, 20 (1), 135-143.

Ramsden, E. (2007) A Differential Paradox: The Controversy surrounding the Scottish Mental Surveys of Intelligence and Family Size, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 43 (2), 109-134.

Rusnock, A. (2007) Medical Statistics and Hospital Medicine: The Case of the Smallpox Vaccination, Centaurus, 49 (4), 337-359.

Rotheli, T. F. (2007) Business Forecasting and the Development of Business Cycle Theory, History of Political Economy, 39 (3), 481-510.

Sathe, Y. S. (2007) Professor S.N. Roy: As I remember him, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 137 (11), 3215.

Seneta E. (2007) The Early Years of the Variance-Gamma Process, Advances in Mathematical Finance., Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis, Birkhauser, Boston, 3–19. MR2359359

Sheynin, O. (2007) The True Value of a Measured Constant and the Theory of Errors, Historia Scientiarum, 17 (1).

Sheynin, O. (2007) Markov: Integrity Is Just As Important As Scientific Merits, NTM Zeitschrift fur Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, 15 (4), 289-294.

Siegmund-Schultze, R. and S. Zabell (2007) Richard von Mises and the ‘problem of two races’: A Statistical Satire in 1934, Historia Mathematica, 33, 206-220. MR2320100

Smith-Peter, S. (2007) Defining the Russian People: Konstantin Arsen’ev and Russian Statistics Before 1861, History of Science, 45 (1), 47-64.

Srivastavadeg, J. N. (2007) Samarendra Nath Roy: An Appreciation, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 137 (11), 3213-3214.

Stamhuis, I. H. (2007) A Nineteenth-Century Statistical Society that Abandoned Statistics, Centaurus, 49 (4), 258-260.

Stigler, S. M. (2007) The Epic Story of Maximum Likelihood, Statistical Science, 22, (4), 598-620 Project Euclid

Stigler, S. M. (2007) The Pedigree of the International Biometric Society, Biometrics, 63 (2), 317-321.

Teira, D. (2007) Milton Friedman, the Statistical Methodologist, History of Political Economy, 39 (3), 511-527.

Triclot, M. (2007) Information et Entropie. Un double jeu avec les probabilités, Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 3 (2).

Tucker, W. H. (2007) Burt’s separated twins: The larger picture, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 43 (1), 81-86.

Wolfenstein, G. K. (2007) Recounting the Nation: The General Register Office and Victorian Bureaucracies, Centaurus, 49 (4), 261-288.

Zambelli, S. (2007) A Rocking Horse That Never Rocked: Frisch’s “Propagation Problems and Impulse Problems”, History of Political Economy, 39 (1), 145-166.

 


 

Interviews and obituaries

A few journals regularly publish interviews with distinguished practitioners and obituaries. These publications can be important sources for the writing of contemporary history.

Interviews

These are ordered alphabetically by name of interviewee.

Takeshi Amemiya interviewed by J. Powell, Econometric Theory, 23, (2007), 155-181.

Shoutir Kishore Chatterjee interviewed by Tathagata Banerjee and Rahul Mukerjee, Statistical Science, 22, (2007), 279-290. Project Euclid

Manfred Deistler interviewed by B. Potscher, Econometric Theory, 23, (2007), 711-748.

Seymour Geisser interviewed by Ronald Christensen and Wesley Johnson, Statistical Science, 22, (2007), 637-650 Project Euclid

Dorothy Gilford interviewed by Edward J. Wegman and Wendy L. Martinez, Statistical Science, 22, (2007), 291-300. Project Euclid

Robert V. Hogg interviewed by Ronald Herman Randles, Statistical Science, 22, (2007), 137-152. Project Euclid

Tim Holt interviewed by Julian Champkin, Significance, 4, (2007), 75-76.

Claus Moser interviewed by Julian Champkin, Significance, 4, (2007), 27-30.

Ingram Olkin interviewed by Allan R. Sampson, Statistical Science, 22, (2007), 450-475. Project Euclid

Monroe Sirken interviewed by Barry I. Graubard, Paul S. Levy and Gordon B. Willis, Statistical Science, 22, (2007), 637-650. Project Euclid

 


Obituaries

These are ordered alphabetically by name of deceased.

Charles W. Dunnett 1921-2007 remembered by Ajit Tamhane & Peter Macdonald IMS Bulletin, 36 (2007), issue 7, 6.

Milton Friedman 1912-2006 remembered by Stephen M. Stigler IMS Bulletin, (2007) 36 issue 2, 8

Ted Harris 1919-2005 remembered by Ken Alexander IMS Bulletin, (2007), 36 (2), 6

William Frederick Fenn Kemsley, MA, 1914-2006 remembered by F. E. Whitehead, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, (2007), 170, 851-852.

David Kendall remembered by John Kingman London Mathematical Society Newsletter December 2007

Jerome Hamilton Klotz 1934-2006 remembered by Richard Johnson & Kjell Doksum IMS Bulletin, (2007), 36, (2), 7

Frank B. Knight 1933-2007 remembered by Donald Burkholder IMS Bulletin, (2007) 36, (5), 6

A Tribute to Bill Kruskal Norman M. Bradburn, Statistical Science, (2007), 22, 262-263. Project Euclid

William H. Kruskal and the Development of Coordinate-Free Methods Morris L. Eaton, Statistical Science, (2007), 22, 264-265. Project Euclid

William Kruskal: My Scholarly and Scientific Model Stephen E. Fienberg, Statistical Science, (2007), 22, 266-268. Project Euclid

William Kruskal Legacy: 1919-2005, Stephen E. Fienberg, Stephen M. Stigler and Judith M. Tanur, Statistical Science, (2007), 22, 255-261. Project Euclid

Working with Bill Kruskal: From 1950 Onward, Leo A. Goodman, Statistical Science, (2007), 22, 269-272. Project Euclid

Bill Kruskal and the Committee on National Statistics, Margaret E. Martin, Statistical Science, (2007), 22, 273-274. Project Euclid

William Kruskal Remembered, Stephen M. Stigler, Statistical Science, (2007), 22, 275-276. Project Euclid

William H. Kruskal, Mentor and Friend, Judith M. Tanur, Statistical Science, (2007), 22, 277-278. Project Euclid

Chu-In Charles Lee 1947-2006 remembered by Jianan Peng IMS Bulletin, (2007), 36 (2), 7

Lincoln Moses 1921-2006 remembered by Bradley Efron IMS Bulletin, (2007), 36 (4), 12

Radu Theodorescu 1933-2007 remembered by Christian Genest, IMS Bulletin, (2007), 36, (8), 16

William T. Tucker 1934-2006 remembered by Gerald J. Hahn, IMS Bulletin, (2007), 36, (8), 17

H. Samuel Wieand 1944-2006 remembered by Howard Rockette, IMS Bulletin, (2007), 36 (1), 7

Yao-Ting Zhang 1933-2007 remembered by Zhaohai Li & Jian Huang, IMS Bulletin, (2007), 36, (10), 10


Journals examined

The following journals were consulted. (Most publish relevant articles only occasionally and some published none in the period under review.)

American Statistician, Annals of Probability, Annals of Science, Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, Bayesian Analysis, Biometrical Journal, Biometrika, Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, British Journal of the History of Science, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Chance, Convergence, Econometric Theory, Erkenntnis, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Historia Mathematica, Historia Scientiarum, History and Philosophy of Logic, History of Political Economy, History of Science, IMS Bulletin, International Statistical Review, Isis, Journal de la Société Francaise de Statistique, Journal of Official Statistics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Applied Probability, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Journal of the History of Biology, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, Mathématiques et sciences humaines, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Philosophy of Science, Revue d'histoire des mathématiques, Revue d'histoire des sciences, Rutherford Journal, Social Studies of Science, Science in Context, Significance, Statistical Science Statistics in Medicine, Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies In History and Philosophy of Modern Physics