Preprint #97-15

First (?) Occurrence of Common Terms in Probability and Statistics -- A Second List, with Corrections

by

H. A. David

An annotated list is presented containing presumed first occurrences in print of terms commonly used in probability and statistics. The list supplements and provides some corrections to a longer list published in The American Statistician (David, 1995).

Keywords: History of statistics; Statistical terminology

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