Studies in the History of Probability and Statistics. XXVIII On the history of certain expansions used in mathematical statistics
概率与统计史研究(二十八):数理统计中若干展开式的历史
This note is concerned with the history of the expansions known to probabilitists and statisticians as Charlier's A-series and Edgeworth's series. It has been pointed out (Gnedenko & Kolmogorov, 1968, Chapter 8) that both these types of expansions appear already in the mathematical work of Tchebychev, so that the names usually attached to them are historically incorrect. In the sequel we shall, however, denote them by the names familiar to statisticians. Both expansions are…