The ingratiating title notwithstanding, this is in no standard sense a text but a monograph, based largely upon the authors' research over a period of years, and intended to be read by sophisticated students of theoretical statistics. No exercises attach to the nine chapters, nor are they interrup
Publisher: CRC Press
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 1990-03-12
Language: English
Number of Pages: 544
Edition: 1
Volume: 134
Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Pure and Applied Mathematics
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..