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1982 | Buch

The Making of Statisticians

herausgegeben von: J. Gani

Verlag: Springer New York

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Like many other scientists, I have long been interested in history. I enjoy reading about the minutiae of its daily unfolding: the coinage, food, clothes, games, literature and habits which characterize a people. I am carried away by the broad sweep of its major events: the wars, famines, migrations, reforms, political swings and scientific advances which shape a society. I know that historians value autobiographical accounts as part of the basic material from which the stuff of history is distilled; this should apply no less to statistical than to political or social history. Modem statistics is a relatively young science; it was while pondering this fact sometime in 1980 that I realized that many of the pioneers of our field could still be called upon to tell their stories. If, however, biographical material about these eminent statisticians was not gathered, then one might lose the chance to gain insight into the origins of many an important statistical development. The remarkable experience of these colleagues could not be readily duplicated. Fired by these thoughts, I took it upon myself to plan the framework of this book. In it, eminent statisticians (probabilists are included under this title) would be invited to sketch their lives, explain how they had become interested in probability and· statistics, give an account of their major contributions, and possibly hazard some predictions about the future of the subject.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Probabilists

Frontmatter
Probability and My Life
Bruno de Finetti
From Riemannian Spaces to Characteristic Functions: The Evolution of a Statistician
Eugene Lukacs
A Life for Probability
Gheorghe Mihoc

Statisticians in Stochastic Processes and Independence

Frontmatter
Chance and Change
M. S. Bartlett
The Search for the Meaning of Independence
Mark Kac

Mathematical Statisticians

Frontmatter
From Pure Mathematics to Applied Statistics
Z. W. Birnbaum
Autobiography of a Mathematical Statistician
R. C. Bose
A Statistician’s Progress from Berlin to Chapel Hill
Wassily Hoeffding
Reminiscences of a Mathematician Who Strayed into Statistics
E. J. G. Pitman

Statisticians in Design and Computing

Frontmatter
My Experience as a Statistician: From the Farm to the University
R. L. Anderson
A Numerate Life
D. J. Finney
From Cosmos to Chaos: My Scientific Career in Mathematics, Statistics, and Informatics
Tosio Kitagawa

Statisticians in Industry and Econometrics

Frontmatter
The Making of an Industrial Statistician
L. H. C. Tippett
Models for Knowledge
Herman Wold

Statisticians in Demography and Medicine

Frontmatter
A Statistician in the Public Health Service
B. Benjamin
From Medicine, through Medical to Mathematical Statistics: Some Autobiographical Notes
Henry Oliver Lancaster
Backmatter
Metadaten
Titel
The Making of Statisticians
herausgegeben von
J. Gani
Copyright-Jahr
1982
Verlag
Springer New York
Electronic ISBN
978-1-4613-8171-6
Print ISBN
978-1-4613-8173-0
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8171-6