Alexandr A. Chuprov: Life, Work, Correspondence

Contents

1. Introduction

Abbreviations

2. A Brief Biography

2.1. Youth

2.2. Mature Years

2.3. Outline

3. Teaching

3.1. The Petersburg Polytechnic Institute

3.2. The Dissemination of Statistical Knowledge

3.3. School Curriculum

4. Social and Political Activities

5. The Last Years

5.1. A Trip Abroad. To Return Or Not?

5.2. Sweden and Germany

5.3. Searching for a Job. Prague

5.4. The End

6. Membership of Scientific Bodies

7. Chuprov and Other Scientists

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Knapp

7.3. Bortkiewicz

7.4. Slutsky

7.5. Romanovsky

7.6. Karl Pearson

7.7. Chetverikov

7.8. Anderson

7.9. Mordukh

7.10. Markov

8. Correspondence with Markov

8.1. An Unsigned Note

8.2. Additions to the Published Text (Ondar E1977/1981)

8.3. Corrections to That Text

9. The Candidate Composition [Dissertation]

9.1. A General Description

9.2. Philosophical Problems

9.3. The Theory of Probability

9.4. Statistics and the Statistical Method

10. Statistics

10.1. Statistics and the Theory of Probability

10.2. The Law of Large Numbers

10.3. The Strong Law of Large Numbers

10.4. Statistics and the Statistical Method

10.5. Statistics and Natural Sciences

10.6. A Particular Remark on Terminology

11. Demography

11.1. Censuses of Population

11.2. Other Areas

12. Actuarial Work

13. Sampling

14. Stability of Statistical series

14.1. Lexis

14.2. Bortkiewicz

14.3. The Coefficient Q (Markov)

14.4. The Coefficient Q (Chuprov)

14.5. The General Formula (Chuprov and Markov)

14.6. Exchangeability

14.7. The Normal Stability of Two Random Variables

15. The Method of Mathematical Expectations

15.1. Introduction

15.2. Chuprov

15.3. The English School

15.4. Random Variable

15.5. A Calculus of Mathematical Expectations

15.6. Appendix: Letters of Anderson and Pearson

16. Appreciation

16.1. The West

16.2. The Soviet Union

Notes

Bibliography

Sources for Photographs

Index of Names

Subject Index