Bortkiewicz' Alleged Discovery : the Law of Small Numbers

• SHEYNIN Oscar

抄録

Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz (1868-1931) published his law of small numbers in 1898. The name of that law was unfortunate; moreover, lacking any mathematical expression, it was only a principle. Many commentators described it, but the present paper is the first ever attempt to examine it thoroughly, and I argue that Kolmogorov's unsubstantiated denial of its worth is correct. For a few decades the law had been held in great respect and thus deserves to be studied.

収録刊行物

• Historia scientiarum. Second series : international journal of the History of Science Society of Japan

  Historia scientiarum. Second series : international journal of the History of Science Society of Japan 18 (1), 36-48, 2008-07-30

  日本科学史学会

キーワード

• Law of small numbers
• Poisson distribution
• stability of statistical series
• theory of dispersion

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• CRID: 1572824502102985728
• NII論文ID: 110006914870
• NII書誌ID: AA11081495
• ISSN: 02854821
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