Density curves in the theory of errors

DOI10.1007/BF00376546MaRDI QIDQ1897793zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors O. B. Sheĭnin

Publication date 14 March 1996

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00376546

zbMATH Keywords

characterization of probability distributions Gaussian distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of statistics (62-03)

Review text

This paper is a very interesting discussion of density curves introduced and applied from the second part of the 18th century to describe the distribution of errors. Here is the list of the most important contributors: Boscovich, Simpson, Lambert, D. Bernoulli, Lagrange, Laplace, Gauss, Adrian, Cournot, De Morgan, Newcomb, Lehman-Filhés, Eddington, Ogorodnikoff, P. Lévy, Student. One has the impression that the introduction of stable densities in the twenties was the last important work in this field. There are, however, many recent developments due to e.g. P. Findeisen, C. R. Rao, J. K. Ghosh, H. Teicher. Exact references and further density curves in the theory of errors can be found in \textit{Z. Buczolich} and the reviewer [Adv. Appl. Math. 10, No. 4, 439-456 (1989; Zbl 0701.62037)].

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