William Fleetwood Sheppard - Discussions

Discussions

  • A. C. Aitken and E T Whittaker (1935–36) William Fleetwood Sheppard, Sc.D., LL.M., Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 56, 279–282. There is a link to this obituary in the MacTutor article referred to below.
  • "William Fleetwood Sheppard", Mathematical Gazette, 20, December 1936.
  • N. F. Sheppard (1937) W. F. Sheppard, F.R.S.E., Sc. D., Ll. M.: "Personal History", Annals of Eugenics, 8, 1–9.
  • A. C. Aitken (1937) "A Note on Sheppard’s Contributions to Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics", Annals of Eugenics, 8, 9–11.
  • R. A. Fisher (1937) "The Character of Sheppard’s Work", Annals of Eugenics, 8, 11–12.
  • Donald A. MacKenzie, Statistics in Britain 1865–1930 : the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge, Edinburgh University Press. 1981.
MacKenzie is particularly interested in the relationship between Sheppard and Galton. The standard modern histories and encyclopedias pay little attention to Sheppard. See, however,
  • A. Hald (2001) "On the History of the Correction for Grouping, 1873–1922", Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 28, 417–428.
This puts Sheppard's work into a story that begins with Thiele (1873) and ends with Fisher (1922).

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