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2011-05-06 draft comment at Talk: Ronald Fisher

It's reasonable to try to distinguish using the word randomization, coining the term randomization, introducing the concept of randomization, and introducing randomization; and also to distinguish those from popularizing or establishing this or that. It's reasonable as a historian of science, or a philosopher. As a wikipedia editor, it's probably best to try to follow what others have done

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Notes in progress regarding Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics#Top importance, Start class articles.

#Wikipedia1.0

#page view stats

#vital articles

(For anyone who is new to these tools.) This is the first time I have "clicked" any cell in the Assessment table for this project, or similarly for any other project. Beside the "Top, Start" class featured above (at the moment, click "62"), the "High, Stub" class (now "67") is also marginally comprehensible by eye. --P64 (talk) 18:06, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Sources

Cohen, I.Bernard. The Triumph of Numbers: How counting shaped modern life. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 2005. ISBN 0-393-05769-0
David, F.N. Gods, Games and Gambling: A history of probability and statistical ideas. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. 1998. ISBN 0-486-40023-9

—first, London: Charles Griffin & Co. 1962.

Stigler, Stephen M. The History of Statistics: The measurement of uncertainty before 1920. Cambridge: Harvard U P. 1986. ISBN 0-674-40341-x

—paper

Gill on Monty Hall

Richard T. Gill is one editor of "Monty Hall problem". Recently at the University of Leiden he has posted some prepublications. See the References Gill 2009a, 2009b, 2010.

These are good articles.

under construction: editorial comments on Gill not on the wikipedia article

The coverage of unconditional probability seems to include a mistaken double complement/negative, 1 - Pr(P != T) or it is simply too brief.