References for Ladislaus Bortkiewicz

1. O S Sheynin, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
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Articles:

2. O Anderson, Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz, Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie 3 (1931), 242-250.
3. T Andersson, Obituary of Ladislaus Josephowitsch Bortkiewicz, Nordic Statistical Journal 3 (1931), 9-26.
4. A R Crathorne, The law of small numbers, Amer. Math. Monthly 35 (1928), 169-175.
5. I J Good, Some statistical applications of Poisson's work, Statist. Sci. 1 (2) (1986), 157-180.
6. E J Gumbel, Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 2 (New York, 1968), 128-131.
7. M P Quine, and E Seneta, Bortkiewicz's data and the law of small numbers, Internat. Statist. Rev. 55 (2) (1987), 173-181.
8. H Schumacher, Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz, Allgemeines statistisches Archiv 21 (1931), 573-576.
9. J A Schumpeter, Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz : 1868-1931, in Ten great economists from Marx to Keynes (New York, 1960), 302-305.
10. S M Stigler, The History of Statistics. The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900 (Cambridge, Mass.-London, 1986), 375-376.

July 2000