Drawing the Boundaries: Mathematical Sta
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Patti W. Hunter
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Article
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1996
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Statistics in Europe and in the United States acquired the status of a separate field only in the 20th century. Until then, it had provided a quantitative tool for analyzing data in various sciences. In the early 1930s, the founding of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics and of the Institute of Ma