Annotated Readings in the History of Statistics
Publisher: Springer
Published: April 6, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780387988443
First sentence: The notion of the expected value of a gamble or of an insurance is as old as those activities themselves, so that in seeking the origin of "expectation" as it is nowadays understood it is important to be clear about what is being sought.