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Publication date: 1986
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geodesyastronomyLaplacesocial sciencesLeast squaresQueteletGaußPearsonEdgeworthPsychophysicsGaltonmeasurement of uncertaintyInverse probabilitystudies of heredityYule
Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistics (62-02) History of statistics (62-03) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)
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