Autobiographies:
Box, G. E. (2013). An Accidental Statistician: The Life and Memories of George E. P. Box. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Mosteller, F. (2010). The Pleasures of Statistics. (S. E. Fienberg, D. C. Hoaglin, & J. M. Tanur, Eds.) New York, NY: Springer.
Biographies:
Bellhouse, D.R. (2011). Abraham de Moivre: Setting the stage for classical probability and its applications. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Box, J. F. (1978). R.A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist. Wiley.
Golbeck, A. L. (2017). Equivalence: Elizabeth L. Scott at Berkeley. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall / CRC.
Golbeck A. L. (2026), Florence Nightingale David: A Passionate Statistician, Probabilist, Historian, and Leader. Springer Nature.
Pearson, E., & R.L. Plackett. (1990). Student: A Statistical Biography of William Sealy Gosset. Clarendon Press.
Porter, T. M. (2006). Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Reid, C. (1982). Neyman: From Life. New York, NY: Springer.
Thomas, D.O. (1977). The honest mind: The thought and work of Richard Price. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.
Portrait biographies:
Heyde, C., Crepel, P., Fienberg, S., Seneta, E., & Gani, J. (Eds.). (2001). Statisticians of the Centuries. New York: Springer.
Johnson, N. L., & Kotz, S. (Eds.). (1997). Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Lehmann, E. L. (2007). Reminiscences of a Statistician: The Company I Kept. New York: Springer.
Topical histories:
David, H. A.F. and A.W.F. Edwards (2001). Annotated Readings in the History of Statistics, New York: Springer
David, F.N. (1962). Games, Gods and Gambling. The origins and history of probability and statistical ideas from the earliest times to the Newtonian era. London, UK: Charles Griffin.
Goldberg, J. P. (1985). The First Hundred Years of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, University of California Libraries (https://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/)
Hald, A. (1990). A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications before 1750. New York, NY: Wiley.
Hald, A. (1998). A History of Mathematical Statistics from 1750 to 1930. New York, NY: Wiley.
Hald, A. (2007). A History of Parametric Statistical Inference from Bernoulli to Fisher, 1713–1935. New York, NY: Springer.
John, V. (1884). Geschichte der Statistik. Erster Teil: Von dem Ursprung der Statistik bis auf Quetelet. Stuttgart: Enke Verlag.
[in German; title translates to History of statistics. First part: From the beginnings of statistics to Quetelet; no second part was published; focuses on the non-mathematical roots of statistics]
Kendall, M.G. & Plackett, R.L. (Eds) (1977). Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability, Volume II. London, UK: Griffin.
Lehmann, E.L. (2011). Fisher, Neyman, and the Creation of Classical Statistics. New York, NY: Springer .
MacKenzie, D.A..(1981). Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press.
Nagaraja, C. H., (2019). Measuring Society, Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall / CRC
Pearson, E.S. & Kendall, M.G. (Eds.) (1970). Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability, Volume I. London, UK: Griffin.
Pearson, K. (1978). The History of Statistics in the 17th and 18th Centuries Against the Changing Background of Intellectual, Scientific and Religious Thought. (ed. Pearson, E.S.) London, UK: Charles Griffin.
Porter, T.M. (1986). The Rise of Statistical Thinking 1820-1900. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press.
Stigler, S.M. (1986). The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Stigler, S. (1999). Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Stigler, S. M. (2016). The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
Todhunter, I. (1865). A History of the Mathematical Theory of Probability from the Time of Pascal to that of Laplace. London, UK: Macmillan.
Weisberg, H.I. (2014). Willful Ignorance. The Mismeasure of Uncertainty. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Other books containing history:
Mayo, D. (2018). Statistical inference as severe testing: How to get beyond the statistics wars. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Articles On Stats History
Golbeck, A. L. and Molgaard CA., Professional awards in statistics: Chipping away at gender disparities in the USA. Proceedings of the 59th World Statistics Congress, Hong Kong, China, 25-30 August 2013, pp. 5155-5160.
Golbeck, A. L., Are women underrepresented in the American statistics profession? Significance 13(2):8-9, April 2016.
Golbeck, A. L., How one woman used regression to influence the salaries of many. Significance Magazine 38-41, December 2017.
Golbeck, A. L., (press release) Statistics Association Presidents Establish Elizabeth L. Scott and F.N. David Lectureships. AmStat News 492:39, June 2018.
Golbeck, A. L., A “mover and shaker” for women in statistics. Significance 16(3):36-38, June 2019.
Golbeck, A. L., Supporting an inclusive community: A caucus for women in statistics. Significance 17(2):42-44, April 2020.
Golbeck, A. L., (invited paper). Presidents of the Caucus for Women in Statistics, 1971-2021. Significance Magazine, 2020. Available at: https://www.significancemagazine.com/science/642-cws-presidents-1971-2021.
Golbeck, A. L., The road less travelled… How Elizabeth L. Scott and F. N. David made an impact, Significance Magazine. June 2021, pp. 36-38
Golbeck, A. L. and Molgaard CA (invited paper), The Inimitable F. N. David: A Renaissance statistician. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 68(3):321-330, 2021.
Golbeck, A. L., Big telescopes: The story behind a story of discrimination in science. Significance 19(3):36-39 June 2022.
Golbeck, A. L. and Mazumdar M., Mary Wheat Gray: “I Never Give Up.” Notices of the American Mathematical Society 70(3):390-399, 2023.
Golbeck, A. L., Why we need biographies of women statisticians. Significance https://significancemagazine.com/why-we-need-biographies-of-women-statisticians/, July 2025.
Golbeck, A. L., Elizabeth L. Scott Award Acceptance Speech, Acceptance speech archives, Library, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies. Accessed on 7/21/2026 at https://community.amstat.org/copss/library.