The missing early history of contingency tables

R´ ESUM´ E. —L'apparente absence d'une histoire des tableaux de con- tingence avant 1900 est exploree, et trois hypotheses sont avancees pour expliquer cette absence de developpements anciens sur le sujet : diffi- cultes de calcul, manque de donnees, et obstacles conceptuels. Finale- ment, l'importance du modele de quasi-symetrie dans cet historique est brievement notee. ABSTRACT. —The apparent lack of a history of contingency tables before 1900 is explored, and three explanatory hypotheses are considered for the absence of early development on this topic: computational difficulty, lack of data, and conceptual hurdles. Finally, the importance to this history of the model of quasi-symmetry is briefly noted.

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