Reminiscences of a Statistician The Company I Kept /

• Main Author: Lehmann, E. L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2008.
• Subjects: Statistics.; Statistics, general.

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 of some of the work, of 65 people, most of them statisticians. What gives the book its special character is its emphasis...

Table of Contents:

• Mathematical Preparation
• Becoming a Statistician
• Early Collaborators
• Mathematical Statistics at Other Universities
• The Annals
• The Berkeley Statistics Department I: Establishment and First Generation
• The Berkeley Statistics Department II: The Second Generation
• The Stanford Statistics Department
• Nonparametrics and Robustness
• Foundations I: The Frequentist Approach
• Foundations II: Bayesianism and Data Analysis
• Statistics Comes of Age
• New Tasks and Relationships
• England
• Contacts Abroad.