1835 QUETELET, Lambert Adolphe Jacques (1796 – 1874)
Sur l’homme et le développement des facultés, ou essai de physique sociale. 2 vols.
Quetelet’s statistical researches on the development of the physical and intellectual qualities of man, and an exposition of his concept of the “average man”, which became the by-word of quantitative studies. "Quétele…
GMN 1698.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2457
1877 ANDREWS, Edmund (1824 – 1904); LACY, Thomas B.
The mortality of surgical operations in the upper lake states, compared with that of other regions.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 9532 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11718
1889 BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913)
On vital and medical statistics.
GMN 1705 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2510
1889 GALTON, Sir Francis (1822 – 1911)
Natural inheritance.
By the employment of statistical methods Galton propounded a “law of filial regression”. This book represents the first statistical study of biological variation and inheritance.
GMN 233 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8336
1897 PEARSON, Karl (1857 – 1936)
The chances of death and other studies in evolution. 2 vols.
GMN 1706 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2514
1899 DAVENPORT, Charles Benedict (1866 – 1944)
Statistical methods, with special reference to biological variation.
Davenport introduced statistical methods into American evolutionary studies.
GMN 1707 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2518
1907 GALTON, Sir Francis (1822 – 1911)
Probability: The foundation of eugenics.
GMN 1709 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2524
1908 HARDY, Godfrey Harold (1877 – 1947)
Mendelian proportions in a mixed population.
Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium.
GMN 243 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8668
1908 WEINBERG, Wilhelm (1836 – 1937)
Überden Nachweis der Vererbung beim Menschen.
Weinberg, a general practitioner and obstetrician in Stuttgart, was also a founder of population genetics. He co-discovered the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium.
GMN 244 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8669
1914 PEARSON, Karl (1857 – 1936)
On the handicapping of the first-born.
GMN 1711 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2531
1918 FISHER, Sir Ronald Aylmer (1890 – 1962)
The correlation between relatives on the supposition of Mendelian inheritance.
"Fisher put forward a genetics conceptual model that shows that continuous variation amongst phenotypic traits could be the result of Mendelian inheritance. The paper also contains the first use of the statistical ter…
GMN 248 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8678
1930 FISHER, Sir Ronald Aylmer (1890 – 1962)
The genetical theory of natural selection.
The first coherent general algebraic analysis of Mendelian population behavior. The work contains Fisher’s rigorous development of his “fundamental theorem of natural selection”–”the rate of increase in fitness of any…
GMN 253 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8682
1931 WRIGHT, Sewall Green (1889 – 1988)
Evolution in Mendelian populations.
First detailed presentation of Wright’s quantitative theory of the effects of mutation, migration, selection, and population size on changes in gene frequencies in populations. Digital facsimile from Genetics.org at t…
GMN 253.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8683
1932 WESTERGAARD, Harald Ludvig (1853 – 1936)
Contributions to the history of statistics.
GMN 1715 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2552
1948 GREENWOOD, Major (1880 – 1949)
Medical statistics from Graunt to Farr.
FitzPatrick Lectures, 1941 and 1943.
GMN 1716 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2945
1978 PEARSON, Karl (1857 – 1936); PEARSON, Egon Sharpe (1895 – 1980)
The history of statistics in the 17th and 18th centuries against the changing background of intellectual, scientific and religious thought. Lectures by Karl Pearson given at University College London during the academic sessions 1921-1933.
GMN 1716.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2950
1986 STIGLER, Stephen Mack (1941 – )
The history of statistics: The measurement of uncertainty before 1900.
The first comprehensive history of statistics from about 1700 to 1900.
GMN 1716.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2954
