References for Wilhelm Lexis
Books:
- Wilhelm Lexis, Neue Deutsche Biographie (Berlin, 1952-).
Articles:
- A A Chuprov, Wilhelm Lexis, Izv. Akad. Nauk Pgd. VI 10 (1916), 1789-1798.
- S Gutiérrez Cabria, Development of statistical inference from its beginnings to the beginning of this century (Spanish), Estadist. Espanola No. 98 (1983), 9-29.
- K-P Heiss, Wilhelm Lexis, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Vol 9 (New York, 1968), 271-276.
- S M Stigler, The measurement of uncertainty in nineteenth-century social science, in The probabilistic revolution Vol. 1 (Cambridge, MA-London, 1987), 287-292.
- S M Stigler, The History of Statistics. The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900 (Cambridge, Mass.-London, 1986), 222-.
- L von Bortkiewicz, Wilhelm Lexis, Bull. Int. Statist. Inst. 20 (1915), 328-332.
- S L Zabell, Wilhelm Lexis, in N L Johnson and S Kotz (eds.), Leading personalities in statistical sciences (New York, 1997), 305-307.
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