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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."
Stephen M. Stigler (1982). "Thomas Bayes's Bayesian Inference," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 145:250–258. (Stigler argues for a revised interpretation of the essay; recommended) Isaac Todhunter (1865). A History of the Mathematical Theory of Probability from the time of Pascal to that of Laplace, Macmillan. Reprinted ...
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.
Among the critiques to this work is that it reads more as a work of sociology and political economy than as a technical account of how statistical operations developed, [5] and the critical balance Desrosières needs to maintain between defending the necessity and legitimacy of critical attacks on statistical concepts and methods in the name of sociopolitical progress and the stated need for ...
The statistician and historian of statistics Stephen M. Stigler wrote the following about Benjamin Peirce: [1] "In 1852 he published the first significance test designed to tell an investigator whether an outlier should be rejected (Peirce 1852, 1878).
[2] The prize was named in honour of Peter M. Neumann, who was a longstanding supporter of and contributor to the society. It carries an award of £600.The previous winners are: 2023: Casanova's Lottery: The History of a Revolutionary Game of Chance, Stephen M. Stigler [3] 2021: The Flying Mathematicians of World War I, Tony Royle
The law's naming after a later rediscoverer is therefore an example of Stigler's law of eponymy (named by Stephen Stigler after himself in 1980: see below). 1934: Natural deduction, an approach to proof theory in philosophical logic – discovered independently by Gerhard Gentzen and Stanisław Jaśkowski in 1934.