高尔顿发现相关与回归的历史回顾与反思

A Retrospective Reflection on the Discovery of Regression and Correlation by Francis Galton

以大量的历史文献为依据,从技术角度细致地追溯了19世纪末英国学者佛朗西斯.高尔顿发现相关与回归的历史过程。向读者展示了这位伟大学者的统计思想从产生到成熟的过程,提出若干相关问题的思考与见解。

This article based on a considerable amount of historical literature carefully traces from theoretical points the historical event of the discovery of regression and correlation by Francis Galton in the late of nineteen century, and not only shows readers the procedure of the great scholar＇s the statistical ideas from birth to maturity, but also proposes some reflection on the related problem. The writer hopes that the readers can obtain some useful inspiration from the article.