Studies in the History of Probability and Statistics. XXXIII Cauchy and the witch of Agnesi: An historical note on the Cauchy distribution

DOI10.1093/biomet/61.2.375zbMath0288.01013OpenAlexW2141237963WikidataQ55966482 ScholiaQ55966482MaRDI QIDQ4775820

Publication date: 1974

Published in: Biometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/61.2.375

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of statistics (62-03) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

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