Table of Contents

Contents: Preface. The Development of Statistics. Science, Psychology and Statistics. Measurement. The Organization of Data. Probability. Distributions. Practical Inference. Sampling and Estimation. Sampling Distributions. Comparisons, Correlations, and Predictions. Factor Analysis. The Design of Experiments. Assessing Differences and Having Confidence. Treatments and Effects: The Rise of ANOVA. The Statistical Hotpot.

Reviews

"The book is chock-full of interesting facts and tidbits and this along with the author's highly readable writing style makes the book difficult to put down. Mathematical level required is minimal and is highly recommended reading for students and teachers of statistics."
—The American Statistician"...Cowles' book provides a convenient and readable account of the history of statistics. Indeed, because the study of variability is, as he points out in his opening sentence, a central concern of the life sciences, and also because he provides few concrete examples from psychology itself, his book will be of interest to anyone who uses statistics in their work."
—Journal of History of the Neurosciences