Studies in the History of Probability and Statistics. XXIII Daniel Bernoulli on the normal law

Abstract

Summary This paper discusses one of D. Bernoulli's memoirs (1770–1) in which he deduced the ‘De Moivre-Laplace’ limit theorems, nevertheless credited to De Moivre. The memoir is described in § 2 while § 1 attempts to sum up Bernoulli's contributions more generally.