William Fleetwood Sheppard
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Australian statistician
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William Fleetwood Sheppard's Degrees
- Bachelors Statistics University of Melbourne
- PhD Statistics Australian National University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Fleetwood Sheppard FRSE LLM Australian-British civil servant, mathematician and statistician remembered for his work in finite differences, interpolation and statistical theory, known in particular for the eponymous Sheppard's corrections.
William Fleetwood Sheppard's Published Works
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- On the Calculation of the most Probable Values of Frequency‐Constants, for Data arranged according to Equidistant Division of a Scale (1897) (164)
- On the Application of the Theory of Error to Cases of Normal Distribution and Normal Correlation (113)
- NEW TABLES OF THE PROBABILITY INTEGRAL (1903) (21)
- Central‐Difference Formulæ (1899) (13)
- Some Quadrature‐Formulæ (13)
- On the geometrical treatment of the 'normal curve' of statistics, with especial reference to correlation and to the theory of error (13)
- Summation of the Coefficients of Some Terminating Hypergeometric Series (10)
- Graduation by Reduction of Mean Square of Error. (III.) (1914) (9)
- Fitting of Polynomial by Method of Least Squares (Solution in Terms of Differences or Sums) (8)
- THE CALCULATION OF MOMENTS OF A FREQUENCY-DISTRIBUTION (1907) (8)
- The Fit of a Formula for Discrepant Observations (7)
- Reduction of error by linear compounding (1920) (3)
- Variety of Method in the Teaching of Arithmetic (1929) (3)
- GRADES AND DEVIATESTable of Deviates of the Normal Curve (1907) (3)
- Mathematics for the Study of Frequency Statistics (1930) (2)
- Factorial Moments in Terms of Sums or Differences (2)
- On the Statistical Rejection of Extreme Variations, Single or Correlated. (Normal Variation and Correlation.) (1899) (2)
- Probability and Statistics (1923) (2)
- British Association for the Advancement of Science Mathematical Tables: Volume VII. The probability integral. (1939) (2)
- The Power-Sum Formula and the Bernoullian Function (1912) (1)
- The Accuracy of Interpolation by Finite Differences (1)
- Multiplication and Division of Integers and Decimals (1931) (1)
- XXXVII. On the tabulation of certain frequency-distributions (1900) (1)
- A Method for Extending the Accuracy of Certain Mathematical Tables (1899) (1)
- 286. [V. 1. A. v. Note 254, p. 231] (1908) (0)
- On the Calculation of Differential Coefficients from Tables Involving Differences; with an Interpolation-Formula (1899) (0)
- Quadrature-Formulae in Relation to Moments (1908) (0)
- Answer to Query (1913) (0)
- 278. [V. a.]. Notation of Binomial Coefficients (1908) (0)
- Mathematical Tables, Volume VII, The Probability Integral. (1940) (0)
- Interpolation with Least Mean Square of Error. (0)
- Interpolation by means of Given Differences (Central-Difference Notation) (1932) (0)
- 818. [J.2.b.] Tchebycheff’s Theorem (1926) (0)
- Gleanings Far and Near (1928) (0)
- To the Editor of the Mathematical Gazette (1917) (0)
- The Power-Sum Formula and the Bernoullian Function (Continued from Vol VI. p. 336.) (1913) (0)
- Extended Meaning of Conjugate Sets (0)
- Central-Difference Interpolation Formulæ (1916) (0)
- The Relation between Probability and Statistics (0)
- Reciprocal Correspondence of Differences and Sums (0)
- The Study of Statistics in a School Course (1933) (0)
- Mathematical Tables. VII. The Probability Integral (1939) (0)
- 475. [V. 1. a. δ.] The Use of Brackets in Arithmetic (1916) (0)
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