Reminiscences of a statistician : the company I kept / E.L. Lehmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lehmann, E. L. (Erich Leo), 1917-2009.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lehmann, E. L. (Erich Leo), 1917-2009.

Lehmann, E. L.

Statistics--History.

Statistics.

History.

Statisticians--Biography.

Statisticians.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 309 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Springer, 2007.

Summary:

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 on the author's interaction with these people and the inclusion of many personal anecdotes. Combined, these portraits provide a panoramic view of statistics during the period in question. Included are discussions of such topics as nonparametrics, Bayesian approaches, and data analysis. 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.

Contents:

1 Mathematical Preparation 1

1 Edmund Landau (1877-1938) 1

2 Rolf Noskwith (b. 1919) 7

3 Richard Courant (1888-1971) 8

4 Griffith C. Evans (1887-1973) 10

5 Raphael Robinson (1911-1995) and Julia Bowman Robinson (1919-1985) 13

2 Becoming a Statistician 17

6 Jerzy Neyman (1894-1981) and Alfred Tarski (1901-1983) 17

7 Jerzy Neyman-the Teacher and Scientist 22

8 Joseph L. Hodges, Jr. (1922-2000) 27

9 Evelyn Fix (1904-1965) 33

10 Harold Hotelling (1895-1973) 35

11 Three Ph.D. Godfathers 38

3 Early Collaborators 42

12 Henry Scheffe (1907-1977) 43

13 Charles Stein (b. 1920) 45

14 Hodges-Lehmann I: Parametric Inference 50

15 Herman Chernoff (b. 1923) and Raj Bahadur (1924-1997) 52

4 Mathematical Statistics at Other Universities 57

16 Abraham Wald (1902-1950) 58

17 Jacob (Jack) Wolfowitz (1910-1981) 64

18 William Feller (1906-1970) 67

19 Albert H. Bowker (b. 1919) 70

20 W. Allan Wallis (1912-1998) 75

5 The Annals 79

21 Samuel S. Wilks (1906-1964) 79

22 Wilks' Successors 85

23 Ingram Olkin (b. 1924) 86

6 The Berkeley Statistics Department I: Establishment and First Generation 90

24 Neyman's Struggle 91

25 David Blackwell (b. 1919) 97

26 Lucien Le Cam (1924-2000) 101

27 Elizabeth Scott (1917-1988) 105

28 E.L. Lehmann (b. 1917) I: Department Chair 108

29 E.L. Lehmann II: Teaching and Writing 112

30 F.N. David (1909-1993) 116

31 Students: From Colin Blyth (b. 1922) to Javier Rojo (b. 1951) 119

7 The Berkeley Statistics Department II: The Second Generation 125

32 Peter J. Bickel (b. 1940) 125

33 Kjell Doksum (b. 1940) 128

34 David R. Brillinger (b. 1937) 129

35 David Freedman (b. 1938) 131

8 The Stanford Statistics Department 135

36 Meyer Abraham (Abe) Girshick (1908-1955) 136

37 Lincoln Moses (1921-2006) 137

38 Theodore (Ted) W. Anderson (b. 1918) 140

9 Nonparametrics and Robustness 143

39 Edwin J.G. Pitman (1897-1993) 144

40 Hodges-Lehman II: Nonparametrics 146

41 Wassily Hoeffding (1914-1991) 148

42 Bradley Efron (b. 1938) 151

43 Peter J. Huber (b. 1934) 153

44 Frank Hampel (b. 1941) 155

10 Foundations I: The Frequentist Approach 160

45 Richard von Mises (1883-1953) 161

46 The Fisher-Neyman Controversy 165

47 Wald's Decision Theory 169

48 Jack Carl Kiefer (1924-1981) 172

49 Lawrence D. Brown (b. 1940) 175

11 Foundations II: Bayesianism and Data Analysis 178

50 Leonard J. Savage (1917-1971) 179

51 Dennis Lindley (b. 1923) 182

52 James O. Berger (b. 1950) 185

53 Herbert Robbins (1915-2001) 188

54 John W. Tukey (1915-2000) 192

55 Tukey's Robust Statistics and Exploratory Data Analysis 196

12 Statistics Comes of Age 199

56 Harald Cramer (1893-1985) 200

57 Samuel Kotz (b. 1930) 205

58 Stephen M. Stigler (b. 1941) 208

13 New Tasks and Relationships 211

59 Juliet P. Shaffer (b. 1932) 212

60 Frederick Mosteller (1916-2006) 216

61 Constance Reid (b. 1918) 221

62 Persi Diaconis (b. 1945) 224

14 England 229

63 R.A. Fisher (1890-1962) 230

64 Egon S. Pearson (1895-1980) I: Collaboration and Friendship with Neyman (1894-1981) 235

65 Egon S. Pearson II: Other Work 240

66 David Cox (b. 1924) 244

15 Contacts Abroad 248

67 Bartel L. van der Waerden (1903-1996) 248

68 C.R. Rao (b. 1920) 251

69 Zhongguo Zheng (b. 1938) 256

70 Joseph (Yossi) A. Yahav (b. (1935) 259

71 Willem (Bill) R. van Zwet (b. 1934) 261

72 Van Zwet's Gift 263.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-288) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780387715964

0387715967

OCLC:

191881942