Aldrich, John (2010) Tales of two societies - London and Paris 1860-1940. Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique, 6 (2).
Abstract
This paper considers the relationship between the Statistical Society of London (from 1887 the Royal Statistical Society) and the Société de Statistique de Paris and, more generally, that between English and French statisticians in the period 1860-1940. The societies were originally for numerically minded economists, public health experts, demographers or geographers but the modern societies are organised around probability and mathematical statistics. At the beginning of our period the statisticians of each country specialised in that country's facts but at the end statisticians in both countries were starting to contribute to an international project. In the late 1930s Maurice Fréchet, Georges Darmois and Daniel Dugué were interacting with Ronald Fisher in a new way that set a pattern for statistics in the post-war period.
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