ISBN: 9780387715971

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 … Mehr…

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.; PDF; Biography > Biography: general > Biography: science, technology & engineering > Autobiography: scien, Springer New York<

2007, ISBN: 9780387715971

This relatively nontechnical book is the first account of the history of statistics from the Fisher revolution to the computer revolution. It sketches the careers, and highlights some of … Mehr…

This relatively nontechnical book is the first account of the history of statistics from the Fisher revolution to the computer revolution. It sketches the careers, and highlights some of the work, of 65 people, most of them statisticians. What gives the book its special character is its emphasis on the author's interaction with these people and the inclusion of many personal anecdotes. Combined, these portraits provide an amazing fly-on-the-wall view of statistics during the period in question. The stress is on ideas and technical material is held to a minimum. Thus the book is accessible to anyone with at least an elementary background in statistics. eBook Erich L. Lehmann PDF, Springer, 26.12.2007, Springer, 2007<

2007, ISBN: 9780387715971

The Company I Kept, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), Auflage, [PU: Springer-Verlag], [ED: 1], Springer-Verlag, 2007

2007, ISBN: 9780387715971

The Company I Kept, eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), 2008, [PU: Springer New York], Springer New York, 2007

ISBN: 0387715975

Reminiscences of a Statistician - The Company I Kept: ab 42.99 € Medien > Bücher > E-books, [PU: Springer]