Title | A Celebration of Statistics [electronic resource] : The ISI Centenary Volume A Volume to Celebrate the Founding of the International Statistical Institute in 1885 / edited by Anthony C. Atkinson, Stephen E. Fienberg |
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Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York, 1985 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8560-8 |
Descript | XV, 606 p. online resource |
1. Prediction and Entropy -- 2. Statistical Developments in World War II: An International Perspective -- 3. Statistics in the United Kingdom, 1939โ45 -- 4. The Fascination of Sand -- 5. International Trends in Official Statistics -- 6. Cohort Analysis in Epidemiology -- 7. Psychiatric Statistics -- 8. Mathematical Models for Infectious Disease Statistics -- 9. Evolutionary Origins of Statisticians and Statistics -- 10. Statistical Computing: Whatโs Past Is Prologue -- 11. Conditional Econometric Modeling: An Application to New House Prices in the United Kingdom -- 12. Large-Scale Social Experimentation in the United States -- 13. The Development of Sample Surveys of Finite Populations -- 14. On Some New Probabilistic Developments of Significance to Statistics: Martingales, Long Range Dependence, Fractals, and Random Fields -- 15. Concepts of Robustness -- 16. Robust Estimators of Location and Their Second-Order Asymptotic Relations -- 17. Mathematical Statistics in the Humanities, and Some Related Problems in Astronomy -- 18. Reflections on the World Fertility Survey -- 19. Economic and Social Statistics for Comparative Assessments -- 20. An Introduction to the Optimum Design of Experiments -- 21. Experimental Design in Russian Practice -- 22. Agricultural Experimentation in a Developing Country -- 23. On the Statistical Analysis of Floods -- 24. Weighted Distributions Arising Out of Methods of Ascertainment: What Population Does a Sample Represent? -- 25. Statistical Problems in Crop Forecasting -- Author Index