Stephen Stigler's father, the economist George Stigler, also examined the process of discovery in economics.
He formulated modern statistics in " Fisher ) . ( See Stephen Stigler's historical books and Ian Hacking 1990 ).
Historian of statistics Stephen Stigler concluded that Saunderson was the most probable discoverer after attempting to trace some of these letters and discussions, but has been challenged by other statisticians.
A spokesman for the university said Bahadur died after a long illness, and a colleague there, Prof . Stephen Stigler, said Bahadur had suffered from emphysema for many years.
The various papers written by him during his eight-year tenure at Freiburg were, in the eyes of statistics historian Stephen Stigler, " his most important statistical work ".
Stephen Stigler, in his 1999 book ( see references, below ) gave a more favorable interpretation, pointing out that some of Craig's reasoning can be justified if his " probability " is interpreted as the log-likelihood ratio.
Professor Stephen Stigler, historian of statistical science, thinks that Bayes became interested in the subject while reviewing a work written in 1755 by Thomas Simpson, but George Alfred Barnard thinks he learned mathematics and probability from a book by Abraham de Moivre.
He formulated modern statistics in " Fisher ) . ( See the historical books of Stephen Stigler . ) Many of Peirce's ideas were later popularized and developed by Ronald A . Fisher, Jerzy Neyman, Frank P . Ramsey, Bruno de Finetti, and Karl Popper.