Simon Newcomb, Percy Daniell, and the History of Robust Estimation 1885-1920

DOI10.2307/2284515zbMath0286.01011OpenAlexW4252652992MaRDI QIDQ4773997

Stephen M. Stigler

Publication date: 1973

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2284515

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric robustness (62G35) Point estimation (62F10) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of statistics (62-03) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

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