‘Observations and Statistics. An Essay on the Theory of Errors of Observation and the First Principles of Statistics.,’ pp. 138-169 in: Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Vol. XIV, Part II. Read May 25, 1885.
Cambridge: University Press, 1887. First edition, journal issue in never-bound sheets, of the first and most important of Edgeworth’s papers on the application of the statistical methods of the theory of errors to the social sciences and economics. “Of all the great economists in this book, he [Edgeworth] is (apart..... More
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