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The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 Unsolicited Press Winner of three Solas LiteraryAn essential work on the origins of statistics The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820 1900 explores the history of statistics from the field's origins in the nineteenth century through to the factors that produced the burst of modern statistical innovation in the early twentieth century. Theodore Porter shows that statistics was not developed by mathematicians and then applied to the sciences and social sciences. Rather, the field came into being