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The Politick Survey of a Kingdome: the first statistical template?
Author(s) -
Lewin Chris
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2010.00412.x
Subject(s) - statistician , set (abstract data type) , computer science , classics , data science , history , statistics , mathematics , programming language
A chance discovery led Chris Lewin to a manuscript dated 1631. It seems to be a set of instructions for a budding statistician. Is this pioneer effort the first framework for statistics in English?