Visuals for Statistics
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Outline

  • Intro/Math of Probability
  • Social Statistics: The Law of Error and L'Homme Moyenne
  • Francis Y. Edgeworth
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  • Discussion: the problem & its statistical solution; cultural context of statistics
  • Epilog

    1. Viking stats
    2. "The Dice Players" [Georges de la Tour (1593-1652)]
    3. binomial distribution [Quetelet, 1846]
    4. society
    5. geodesical measurements
    6. A. Legendre and "center-of-gravity" average from Boscovich 1770
    7. normal curve, Bayes' problem of the billiard table, 1764
    8. more social data
    9. Adolphe Quetelet [1822]
    10. table, chest circumference of Scottish soldiers [Quetelet, 1846]
    11. averages of birth/death rates, temperatures [Quetelet, 1827]
    12. criminals [Lombroso]
    13. Francis Y. Edgeworth

    14. Francis Galton
    15. Galton, displaying his criminal ID system
    16. quincunx
    17. quincunx 2
    18. Galton & Pearson
    19. Karl Pearson
    20. Ronald Fisher
    21. students drinking milk
    22. randomizing field plots

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