history_of_statistics
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Resources for learning about the history of statistics and statisticians. By statisticians, for statisticians.
Please recognize Dr. Marshall as a black woman who made significant contributions to statistics and data science.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Mary_Cox https://web.archive.org/web/20150326021456/http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/cox-gertrude.pdf https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cox/
I'd like to add Thomas Bayes to the list of statisticians on Wikipedia. Bayes' Theorem and Bayesian statistics are named after him. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bayes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bayes) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_statistics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_statistics)
I'd like to add a book recommendation for the history of statistics. _Errors, Blunders, and Lies: How to Tell the Difference_ by David Salsburg This book explains statistical methods with...
I highly recommend adding the following book on your list. The Mismeasure of Man (Revised and Expanded) by Stephen Jay Gould. It is a great book and presents a critical...
Twitter thread from @maryclare (twitter: @mcmcgriffin) starts strong, and just keeps building. I'm not sure how best to capture all of the content in the structure of this repo, though....
There's this [History of Statistics site](https://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/) which we could link to, but since it isn't clear how long it will be maintained it isn't clear how long the link would...
