Droesbeke, Jean-Jacques; Tassi, Philippe Histoire de la statistique. (History of statistics). (French) Zbl 0718.01001 Que Sais-Je, 2527. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 128 p. (1990). This is a short introduction into history of statistics with emphasis on the social sciences mainly for French readers (as declared in Chapter I). Chapter II gives a short account of descriptive statistics and of graphical representation, Chapter III a very short account of the foundations of probability and its mathematical aspects, Chapter IV of sampling methods, Chapter V of estimation and testing of hypotheses, Chapter VI of nonparametric statistics and robustness, Chapter VII of time series, Chapter VIII of analyse des données [in the sense of J.-P. Benzécri, Histoire et préhistoire de l’analyse des données (1982; Zbl 0496.62001); and F. Benzécri and J.-P. Benzécri, Pratique de l’analyse des données, 1: Analyse des correspondances (Paris 1980; Zbl 0446.62001)], this chapter was written by Benard Fichet. Chapter IX gives eight biographies of statisticians: R. A. Fisher, Francis Galton, Corrado Gini, W. S. Gosset, J. Neyman, Karl and Egon Pearson, A. Quetelet. A short bibliography with 55 references is given, but no indices of subjects and authors. Reviewer: H.Grimm (Jena) MSC: 62-03 History of statistics 01A05 General histories, source books Keywords:social sciences; J.-P. Benzécri; Karl Pearson; foundations of probability; nonparametric statistics; R. A. Fisher; Francis Galton; Corrado Gini; W. S. Gosset; J. Neyman; Egon Pearson; A. Quetelet Citations:Zbl 0496.62001; Zbl 0446.62001 PDF BibTeX XML Cite \textit{J.-J. Droesbeke} and \textit{P. Tassi}, Histoire de la statistique. (History of statistics). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France (1990; Zbl 0718.01001) OpenURL