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Professor Terry Young Chair of Healthcare Systems
The history of statistics: the measurement of uncertainty before 1900 by Stephen Stigler An entertaining approach with enough good stories and plain English to make it accessible to those of us who did a bit of stats once, but can't remember much. On the other hand, there are plenty of pages of symbols to entertain the cognoscenti. He treats the worlds of physical and social sciences in separate sections and provides a stimulating comparison in consequence. I first dipped into this book to find out a bit more about Bayes, but it has rewarded much more systematic reading. (ISBN 0-674-40341-X)
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