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Saturday, 10 March 2012

Artificial Randomizers - First use in Science

On CS Pierce

On the theory of errors of observations


"Pierce  deliberately used the properties of chance  devices to introduce a new level of control into his experimentation. Control not by getting rid of chance fluctuations, but by adding some more!"
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First experiment utilizing artificial randomizer....

Pierce C. S.  &  Jastrow J., 'On small differences of Sensation', Memoirs of the National Academy of  Sciences 1884(Washington 1885):73-83

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Hacking I. : A Universe of Chance
In Hacking - The Taming of Chance 1990

S Stigler, 

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