The History of Likelihood

DOI10.2307/1402681MaRDI QIDQ4778154zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors A. W. F. Edwards

Publication date 1974

Published in International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Statistique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/1402681

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of statistics (62-03)

Cited in

(14)

• The epic story of maximum likelihood
• Towards a unified definition of maximum likelihood
• R. A. Fisher and the making of maximum likelihood 1912--1922
• The philosophical significance of Stein's paradox
• Nonparametric inference with generalized likelihood ratio tests (With comments and rejoinder)
• The Bernoullis of Basel
• Early sample measures of variability.
• Gauss's contributions to statistics
• On the history of maximum likelihood in relation to inverse probability and least squares.
• Kernel density-based likelihood ratio tests for linear regression models
• The likelihood interpretation as the foundation of fuzzy set theory
• Three early papers on efficient parametric estimation
• What did Fisher mean by inverse probability in 1912--1922?
• Fisher in 1921

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