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

DOI10.2307/2284515zbMATH Open0286.01011OpenAlexW4252652992MaRDI QIDQ4773997FDOQ4773997

Authors: 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

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

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