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Stephen Mack Stigler (born August 10, 1941) is the Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the Department of Statistics of the University of Chicago. [1] He has authored several books on the history of statistics ; he is the son of the economist George Stigler .
Stephen Stigler's father, the economist George Stigler, also examined the process of discovery in economics. He said, "If an earlier, valid statement of a theory falls on deaf ears, and a later restatement is accepted by the science, this is surely proof that the science accepts ideas only when they fit into the then-current state of the science."
Stigler, Stephen M. “University of Chicago Department of Statistics.” In A. Agresti and X. L. Meng, eds., Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U.S. (2013) Storr, Richard J. Harper’s University: The Beginnings (1966), a major scholarly history.. Veith, Ilza, and McLean, Franklin C.
Stigler's law, attributed by Stephen Stigler himself to Robert K. Merton, though the phenomenon had previously been noted by others. [37] Stirling's approximation, which was presaged in published work by Abraham de Moivre. Stokes's theorem discovered by Lord Kelvin; Student's t-distribution, previously derived by Helmert and Lüroth.
Stigler, Stephen M. (1999) Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods. Harvard University Press. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-83601-4
See the historical books of Stephen Stigler: Edgeworth, Francis Ysidro: Irish: 1845: 1926: Revived exponential families (Laplace transforms) in statistics. Extended Laplace's theory of maximum-likelihood estimation. Introduced basic results on information, which were extended and popularized by R. A. Fisher: Pearson, Karl: English: 1857: 1936
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Stigler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Franz Stigler (1915–2008), Luftwaffe pilot who escorted an American bomber back to safety in 1943; George Stigler (1911–1991), Nobel Prize–winning U.S. economist, associated with the Stigler Commission and Stigler diet; father of Stephen Stigler