Reminiscences of a Statistician: The Company I KeptSpringer Science & Business Media, 26 de des. 2007 - 316 pàgines It has been my good fortune to meet and get to know many remarkable people, mostly statisticians and mathematicians, and to derive much pleasure and benefit from these contacts. They were teachers, colleagues and students, and the following pages sketch their careers and our interactions. Also included are a few persons with whom I had little or no direct contact but whose ideas had a decisive influence on my work. To provide some coherence, the account is largely chronological and follows the steps of my own career. Taken together, these sketches provide a very personal picture of the dev- opment of statistical theory from the 1930s to the 1970s. It is the period between two revolutions: that of Fisher, Neyman, and Pearson, which laid the foundations for the classical statistical theory of that period; and the second revolution, forty years later, brought about by the advent of the computer, which turned statistics in new directions. The present account of this history is a highly selective one, which emphasizes the persons, institutions, and statistical topics that were close to my interests. One narrowing effect of this perspective stems from the fact that my career took place in the United States. As a consequence, the book focuses on American statisticians and institutions. Only the last two ch- ters discuss, briefly and very incompletely, developments in some other countries. |
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BECOMING A STATISTICIAN | 17 |
EARLY COLLABORATORS | 42 |
MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS | 57 |
Jacob Jack Wolfowitz 19101981 | 64 |
William Feller 19061970 | 67 |
Albert H Bowker b 1919 | 70 |
W Allan Wallis 19121998 | 75 |
Frank Hampel b 1941 | 156 |
THE FREQUENTIST APPROACH | 160 |
Richard von Mises 18831953 | 161 |
The FisherNeyman Controversy | 165 |
Walds Decision Theory | 169 |
Jack Carl Kiefer 19241981 | 172 |
Lawrence D Brown b 1940 | 175 |
FOUNDATIONS | 178 |
THE ANNALS | 79 |
Wilks Successors | 85 |
Ingram Olkin b 1924 | 86 |
THE BERKELEY STATISTICS DEPARTMENT | 90 |
Neymans Struggle | 91 |
David Blackwell b 1919 | 97 |
Lucien Le Cam 19242000 | 101 |
Elizabeth Scott 19171988 | 105 |
Department Chair | 108 |
Teaching and Writing | 112 |
F N David 19091993 | 116 |
From Colin Blyth b 1922 | 119 |
THE BERKELEY STATISTICS DEPARTMENT | 125 |
Kjell Doksum b 1940 | 128 |
David R Brillinger b 1937 | 129 |
David Freedman b 1938 | 131 |
THE STANFORD STATISTICS DEPARTMENT | 135 |
Meyer Abraham Abe Girshick 19081955 | 136 |
Lincoln Moses 19212006 | 137 |
Theodore Ted W Anderson b 1918 | 140 |
NONPARAMETRICS AND ROBUSTNESS | 143 |
Edwin J G Pitman 18971993 | 144 |
Nonparametrics | 146 |
Wassily Hoeffding 19141991 | 148 |
Bradley Efron b 1938 | 151 |
Peter J Huber b 1934 | 153 |
Leonard J Savage 19171971 | 179 |
Dennis Lindley b 1923 | 182 |
James O Berger b 1950 | 185 |
Herbert Robbins 19152001 | 188 |
John W Tukey 19152000 | 192 |
Tukeys Robust Statistics and Exploratory Data Analysis | 196 |
STATISTICS COMES OF AGE | 199 |
Harald Cramér 18931985 | 200 |
Samuel Kotz b 1930 | 205 |
Stephen M Stigler b 1941 | 208 |
NEW TASKS AND RELATIONSHIPS | 211 |
Juliet P Shaffer b 1932 | 212 |
Frederick Mosteller 19162006 | 216 |
Constance Reid b 1918 | 221 |
Persi Diaconis b 1945 | 224 |
ENGLAND | 229 |
R A Fisher 18901962 | 230 |
Collaboration and Friendship with Neyman 18941981 | 235 |
Other Work | 240 |
David Cox b 1924 | 244 |
CONTACTS ABROAD | 248 |
R Rao b 1920 | 251 |
Zhongguo Zheng b 1938 | 256 |
AFTERWORD | 269 |
NAME INDEX | 289 |
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Pàgina 5 - It was quite pathetic to see his delight when he found himself again in front of a blackboard and his sorrow when his opportunity came to an end.