Euler on statistics

DOI10.1080/15598608.2007.10411853MaRDI QIDQ2324051zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Stephan Morgenthaler, P. R. Parthasarathy

Publication date 13 September 2019

Published in Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/15598608.2007.10411853

zbMATH Keywords

statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of statistics (62-03) History of game theory, economics, and finance (91-03)

Review text

A review of Euler's work in what would nowadays be called statistics is presented. The background of the growing interest in questions of probability in the 18th century certainly was the just established lotteries, but also the emerging insurance issues which asked for things like mortality tables to compute the expenses of insurance schemes for widows and orphans. Hence, the paper under consideration starts with an introduction and then discusses Euler's mathematical work on lotteries and games of chances, being very popular in Euler's lifetime. But Euler also worked on the theory of errors in observations, in the design of experiments, and in questions of mortality and life expectancy issues.

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