STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS: VII. THE PRINCIPLE OF THE ARITHMETIC MEAN

1 June 1958

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Biometrika

Vol. 45 (1-2) , 130-135
https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/45.1-2.130

Abstract

The history of the problem of combining a set of independent observations on the same quantity is traced from antiquity to the appearance in the eighteenth century of the arithmetic mean as a statistical concept.

Keywords

PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
ARITHMETIC MEAN

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