List of publications in statistics
This is a list of
important publications in
statistics, organized by field.
There are some reasons why a particular publication might be regarded as important:\n*
Topic creator - A publication that created a new topic\n*
Breakthrough - A publication that changed scientific knowledge significantly\n*
Introduction - A publication that is a good introduction or survey of a topic\n*
Impact - A publication which had a major impact on the world or on the research\n*
Latest and greatest - The current most advanced result in a topic
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Foundations
The Doctrine of Chances
\n*Abraham de Moivre
Description: The book introduced the concept of normal distributions as approximations to binomial distributions. In effect, de Moivre proved a weak version of the central limit theorem. Sometimes his result is called the theorem of de Moivre-Laplace.
\nImportance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Impact
An Essay Toward Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances
\n* Thomas Bayes\n* Online version
Description: In this paper Bayes' theorem was first introduced.\nIt has a vast impact on statistics since then and keeps being important these days.
Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Impact
See also
\n* List of publications in Science\n* List of publications in mathematics\n* List of publications in computer science
