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Studies in the History of Probability and Statistics. XXV. On the history of some statistical laws of distribution

O. B. SHEYNIN

Biometrika · 1971 · Volume 58 · Issue 1

DOI: 10.1093/biomet/58.1.234

Abstract

SUMMARY The history of the x 2 distribution and the contributions by Herschel, Maxwell and Boltzmann are discussed. The use of the beta distribution by Bayes is also described.

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