References for I J Bienaymé


Books:

  1. C C Heyde and E Seneta, Bienaymé, in Proc. 40th Session of the International Statistical Institute (Warsaw, 1975).
  2. C C Heyde and E Seneta, I J Bienaymé : Statistical theory anticipated (New York, 1977).

Articles:

  1. B Bru, A la recherche de la démonstration perdue de Bienaymé, Math. Inform. Sci. Humaines 114 (1991), 5-17.
  2. A Gatine, Bienaymé, in École Polytechnique. Livre du centenaire 1794-1894 III (Paris, 1897), 314-316.
  3. J de la Gournerie, Lecture de la note suivant, sur les travaux de M Bienaymé, Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences 87 (1878), 617-619.
  4. C C Heyde and E Seneta, The simple branching process, a turning point test and a fundamental inequality : A historical note on I-J Bienaymé, Biometrica 59 (3) (1972), 680-683.
  5. F Jongmans and E Seneta, The Bienaymé family history from archival materials and background to the turning-point test, Bull. Soc. Roy. Sci. Liège 62 (3) (1993), 121-145.
  6. E Seneta, Round the historical work on Bienaymé, Austral. J. Statist. 21 (3) (1979), 209-220.

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