Co-relations and their measurement, chiefly from anthropometric data

by Francis Galton

$4,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

London: Royal Society, 1888. First edition, journal issue in original printed wrappers, of Galton’s invention of the statistical concept of correlation, among the most fundamental and ubiquitous ideas in statistics. Stephen Stigler, the leading historian of statistics, has stressed that correlation did not emerge suddenly or in isolation, but represented the culminating step of a roughly twenty-year research programme

• Binding: Wrappers

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