Research Interests History
of economics, econometrics and statistics
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Websites:
Economics and Statistics
These
look best (and as I intended them) when viewed through Internet
Explorer. They are not as pretty viewed through Mozilla
Firefox. Sorry!
Economics
James Mill on
the Gains from Trade
Statistics
Figures
from the History of Probability and Statistics (542 KB)
Harold Jeffreys Harold
Jeffreys as a Statistician
Karl Pearson Karl
Pearson: A Reader's Guide
Karl
Pearson’s Hampstead home
Ronald Fisher
A
Guide to R. A. Fisher
Ronald
Fisher’s childhood home
Likelihood
and Probability in R. A. Fisher’s Statistical
Methods for Research Workers
Student’s
review of Fisher’s Statistical Methods
E.
S. Pearson’s reviews
of Fisher’s Statistical Methods
Harold
Hotelling’s review of Fisher’s Statistical Methods
Leon
Isserlis’s review of Fishers’ Statistical
Methods
Nature
review of Fisher’s Statistical Methods
BMJ review of Fisher’s Statistical Methods
JEHPS here I
contribute Recent
Publications in the History of Probability and Statistics.
See also Anders
Hald (1913-2007): Writings on the History of Probability and Statistics.
Earliest Known Uses I contribute to Jeff Miller’s Earliest Known Uses pages (Words of Mathematics
and Mathematical
Symbols). I have written a companion Mathematical
Words: Origins and Sources
as well as pages Symbols in Probability &
Statistics and Symbols for
Matrices and Vectors.
There are partial
indexes: to these pages
Mathematics Genealogy Project I have produced some
notes on the history of The Mathematics
PhD in the UK for the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
Talks: (mainly for the nice pictures)
- “But you have to Remember P. J. Daniell
of Sheffield” Powerpoint
slides. For
related text see below under Published.
- P.J
Danielll of King Edward’s School and Beyond Powerpoint
slides. For
related text see below under Published.
- The Econometricians’
Statisticians 1895-1945 Powerpoint
slides. For related text see below under Published.
- Bowley’s Bayesian
Sampling Theory with Some Context. pdf For related text see below under Under consideration
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Selected Papers
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Under consideration
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- Probability, Statistics
& Political Economy in John Stuart Mill's Logic
(2008) here
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- The Enigma of Karl
Pearson and Bayesian Inference (2008) here
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- Professor A. L.
Bowley’s Theory of the Representative Method (2008)
here
- Mathematics in the
Statistical Society 1834-1934 (2010) here
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Published
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- The Econometricians'
Statisticians 1895-1945. History of Political Economy. 2010, vol
42, 111-154. Revised
version of paper presented at the North
American summer meeting of the Econometric Society 2007 here
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- Keynes among the
Statisticians. History
of Political Economy. Vol. 40 (2) , 2008, 265-316. Revised version of Southampton
University Economics Discussion
Paper 2006
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- Comment
on S. L. Zabell's paper: On Student's 1908 paper “The probable error of
a mean” Journal of the American Statistical
Association, 2008, vol 103, 8-11, here
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- Information and
Economics in Fisher’s Design of Experiments. International
Statistical Review. Vol.
75(2), 2007, 131-149. Revised version of Southampton University
Economics Discussion
Paper (2005).
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- (with Anna Staszewska) The
Experiment in Macroeconometrics. Journal of Economic Methodology.
Vol 14 (2) 2007, 143-166. Revised version of Discussion
Paper (2006).
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- The Statistical
Education of Harold Jeffreys, International Statistical Review, Vol. 73(3), 2005, pp. 289-308. Revised version of Southampton
University Economics Discussion
Paper (2003).
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- The Discovery of
Comparative Advantage, Journal of the History of Economic Thought Vol 26 (3) 2004, pp. 379-399. pdf
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- The Language of the
English Biometric School, International
Statistical Review, Vol.
71(1), 2003, pp. 109-131. pdf
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- How Likelihood and Identification went
Bayesian, International Statistical
Review, Vol. 70(1), 2002, pp. 79-98. pdf
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- Fisher’s “Inverse Probability” of 1930, International Statistical Review,
Vol.68 (2), 2000, pp. 155-172. pdf
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- The Jevonian Revolution in International
Trade Theory, Journal of the History
of Economic Thought,Vol 22 (1) 2000, pp. 65-84. pdf
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- Determinacy in the Linear Model: Gauss to
Bose & Koopmans, International
Statistical Review, Vol.67(2), 1999, pp. 211-9. pdf
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- Doing Least Squares: Perspectives from
Gauss and Yule, International
Statistical Review, Vol.66 (1), 1998, pp. 61-81. pdf
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- Multiple Regression Grumbles, pp. 153-177
in: D Conniffe ed, Roy Geary: Irish
Statistician, Dublin Oaktree Press, 1997.
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- R.A. Fisher and the Making of Maximum
Likelihood 1912-1922, Statistical
Science Vol.12(3), 1997, pp.162-176. Project
Euclid.
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- The Course of Marshall's Theorising about
Demand, History of Political Economy,
Vol.28(2), 1996, pp.171-218.
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- Correlations Genuine and Spurious in
Pearson and Yule, Statistical Science,
Vol.10(4), 1995, 364-376. pdf
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- Haavelmo's Identification Theory. Econometric Theory, Vol
10, 1994, 198-219. pdf
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- Reiersøl, Geary and the Idea of Instrumental Variables. Economic and Social Review, 24(3), 1993, 247-274. pdf
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- Probability and Depreciation: A History of
the Stochastic Approach to Index Numbers, History
of Political Economy, 24(3), 1992, 657-686. pdf
- Autonomy, Oxford Economic Papers, 41(1), 1989,
15-34. pdf
- An Alternative Derivation of Durbin's h Test, Econometrica,
46(6), 1978, 1493-1494. pdf
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Discussion papers
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- Cowles Exogeneity and CORE Exogeneity, Southampton University Economics Discussion
Paper 1993.
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- (with Janne Rayner) Distinguishability and
Identifiability
Southampton University Economics Discussion
Paper 1992.
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Book
reviews
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D. Howie (2002) Interpreting
Probability: Controversies and Developments in the Early Twentieth Century
in History of
Political Economy.
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T. M. Porter (2004) Karl
Pearson: the Scientific Life in a Statistical Age in American
Scientist.
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Recent Who's Who in Economics articles in the Economic Review
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Thomas
Robert Malthus, September 2000
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Irving
Fisher, November 2000
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Fisher
Black, February 2001
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Alfred
Marshall, February 2003
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Free sites I use
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Electronic Journal for
History of Probability and Statistics/Journal Electronique d'Histoire des
Probabilités et de la Statistique.
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Bayesian Analysis
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COPAC merged online catalogues of 24 major
university research libraries in the UK and Ireland PLUS the British
Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the National Library of Wales.
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World Cat
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DML:
Digital Mathematics Library
retrodigitized Mathematics Journals and Monographs.
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Google
scholar
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Google
book search
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European Library
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History of
Statistics
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Societies
for the History of Economics
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Discussion: math-history-list
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Historia-Matematica
(Inactive but archive survives)
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SAO/NASA ADS Astronomy
journals
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Economists'
Papers Project at Duke University
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Iowa State
University Statistical Collections Guide
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Economists’
Papers
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