On the history of medical statistics
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: On the history of medical statistics
zbMATH Open document ID: 0494.01001
DOI: 10.1007/BF00348502
published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences
publication date: 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: After some remarks on the first stage of statistical and numerical methods, the applications of statistical methods to public hygiene, surgery, epidemiology, and to meteorology and medicine are discussed, obstetrics are not mentioned. Two papers of the astronomer and mathematician \textit{P. L. Seidel} (1821--1896) [Z. Biol. 1, 221--236 (1865), 2, 145--177 (1866)] are discussed, where he estimates quantitatively the correlative relation between two and three variables (the level of subsoil water, the precipitation and the number of fever cases). They also contain a straightforward example of rank correlation. Both papers are not mentioned in bibliographic sources. 151 lit.
reviewed by: Hilmar Grimm
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A45
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A50
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62-03
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62P10
zbMATH DE Number: 3777423
zbMATH Keywords: public hygiene
zbMATH Keywords: surgery
zbMATH Keywords: epidemiology
zbMATH Keywords: meteorology
zbMATH Keywords: medicine
zbMATH Keywords: correlation
zbMATH Keywords: P. L. Seidel
author: O. B. Sheĭnin
MaRDI profile type: Publication
cites work: J. H. Lambert's work on probability
cites work: Q4401386
cites work: On the prehistory of the theory of probability
cites work: P.S. Laplace's work on probability
cites work: Early history of the theory of probability
cites work: S.D. Poisson's work in probability
cites work: On the history of the statistical method in biology
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00348502
OpenAlex ID: W110200524
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3777423