On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:36:24 -0700, "David Heiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thanks for your answer Dr Karl W., but I am lookinf for an explanation > > about the importance of this Galton Board. > > The real importance of this Galton Board in relation to Statistical > history > > and/or real life > > Thanks again > > Ivan > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------- > We're talking about 1893 when they didn't have electronics, > Galton's board of nails, shown as an illustration in his book, was a device > to show that random events (impacts on balls) tended to a normal > distribution of final position. It was in those days when random events (in > actualality, not in theory) were only accepted based on scientific discovery > (this was just after Darwin's impact on science). You have to kinda look at > it in terms of what Galton and Pearson were doing, describing nature in > terms of mathematical structures. > Anyone interested in history of statistics should read both of the books by Stigler. He says a fair amount about the quinqunx in the first one, "The history of statistics." -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html "Taxes are the price we pay for civilization." Justice Holmes. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
