Heroic periods

[摘要] This article complements Stigler's book of 1986, The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900. We focus on the gap between the early work on the method of least squares, c. 1805-1815, and the discovery and development of regression and correlation, c. 1885-1900. Some possible reasons for this “long pause” between two “heroic periods” are suggested.

[学科分类] 数学（综合）

[关键词] regression;history of statistics;correlation