Theodore M. Porter, The Rise of Statistical Thinking: 1820–1900. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1986. Pp. xii + 333. ISBN 0-691-08416-5. £23.40. - Stephen M. Stigler, The History of Statistics: the Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900. Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986. Pp. ix + 410. ISBN 0-674-40340-1. No price given [Book Review]

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