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Biometrika 1973 60(3):439-445; doi:10.1093/biomet/60.3.439
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Studies in the History of Probability and Statistics. XXXII

Laplace, Fisher, and the discovery of the concept of sufficiency

STEPHEN M. STIGLER

University of Wisconsin Madison

R. A. Fisher's 1920 discovery of sufficiency while studying competing estimators of standard deviations is discussed. It is shown how Laplace completed a similar investigation a century earlier attempting to improve upon least squares, yet did not abstract the concept.

Key Words: Laplace • Fisher • Sufficiency • History of statistics • History of estimation • Least squares


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