Brillinger / Fernholz / Morgenthaler The Practice of Data Analysis

Essays in Honor of John W. Tukey
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5160-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

This collection of essays brings together many of the world's most distinguished statisticians to discuss a wide array of the most important recent developments in data analysis. The book honors John W. Tukey, one of the most influential statisticians of the twentieth century, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Contributors, some of them Tukey's former students, use his general theoretical work and his specific contributions to Exploratory Data Analysis as the point of departure for their papers. They cover topics from "pure" data analysis, such as gaussianizing transformations and regression estimates, and from "applied" subjects, such as the best way to rank the abilities of chess players or to estimate the abundance of birds in a particular area.

Tukey may be best known for coining the common computer term "bit," for binary digit, but his broader work has revolutionized the way statisticians think about and analyze sets of data. In a personal interview that opens the book, he reviews these extraordinary contributions and his life with characteristic modesty, humor, and intelligence. The book will be valuable both to researchers and students interested in current theoretical and practical data analysis and as a testament to Tukey's lasting influence.

The essays are by Dhammika Amaratunga, David Andrews, David Brillinger, Christopher Field, Leo Goodman, Frank Hampel, John Hartigan, Peter Huber, Mia Hubert, Clifford Hurvich, Karen Kafadar, Colin Mallows, Stephan Morgenthaler, Frederick Mosteller, Ha Nguyen, Elvezio Ronchetti, Peter Rousseeuw, Allan Seheult, Paul Velleman, Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser, and Alessandro Villa.

Originally published in 1998.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Brillinger, David R.

Fernholz, Luisa T.

Morgenthaler, Stephan

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introductory Remarks 3

Biographical Information 5

Curriculum Vitae of John Wilder Tukey 9

Ph.D. Theses Directed by John W. Tukey: Princeton University, 1940-1990 16

Partial List of John W. Tukey's Grandstudents 19

A Conversation with John W. Tukey 26

Elizabeth Tukey's Speech 46

Program of the Conference in Honor of John W. Tukey on His 80th Birthday 48

List of Participants 49

Errors-in-Variables Regression Estimators That Have High Breakdown and High Gaussian Efficiency 57

The Analytic Jackknife 67

Assessing Connections in Networks of Biological Neurons 77

Estimating Abundances for a Breeding Bird Atlas 93

Statistical Methods, Graphical Displays, and Tukey's Ladder of Re-Expression in the Analysis of Nonindependence in Contingency Tables: Correspondence Analysis, Association Analysis, and the Midway View of Nonindependence 101

Some Additional Notes on the "Princeton Robustness Year" 133

Tracking Chees Players' Abilities 155

Speculations on the Path of Statistics 175

A Regression Analysis with Categorical Covariables, Two-way Heteroscedasticity, and Hidden Outliers 193

Mean Square over Degrees of Freedom: New Perspectives on a Model Selection Treasure 203

Geographical Trends in Cancer Mortality: Spatial Smoothers and Adjustment 217

Covering Designs in Random Environments 235

Gaussianizing Transformations and Estimation 247

The Tennessee Study of Class Size in the Early School Grades 261

On the Distribution of Order Statistics from a p-wild Distribution 279

Resistant Modelling of Income Distributions and Inequality Measures 287

Bonus Decompositions for Robust Analysis of 2[superscript n] Factorial Experiments 299

The Philosophical Past and the Digital Future of Data Analysis: 375 Years of Philosophical Guidance for Software Design on the Occasion of John W. Tukey's 80th Birthday 317