Lehmann Reminiscences of a Statistician

The Company I Kept
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-387-71597-1
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 316 Seiten

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 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 an amazing fly-on-the-wall view of statistics during the period in question. 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.

Erich L. Lehmann is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the American and National Academies, a former Editor of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics, and President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Chicago and Leiden, and was awarded the Wilks and Noether prizes. He is also the author of Testing Statistical Hypotheses, Theory of Point Estimation, and Elements of Large-Sample Theory, all published by Springer. Two more elementary books, Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics (joint with Hodges) and Nonparametrics have recently been reissued by SIAM and Springer, respectively.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lehmann, Erich L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Contents;8
2.1;1. Edmund Landau (1877–1938);12
3;Mathematical Preparation;12
3.1;2. Rolf Noskwith (b. 1919);18
3.2;3. Richard Courant (1888–1971);19
3.3;4. Griffith C. Evans (1887–1973);21
3.4;5. Raphael Robinson (1911–1995) and Julia Bowman Robinson ( 1919– 1985);24
3.5;6. Jerzy Neyman (1894–1981) and Alfred Tarski ( 1901– 1983);28
4;Becoming a Statistician;28
4.1;7. Jerzy Neyman—the Teacher and Scientist;33
4.2;8. Joseph L. Hodges, Jr. (1922–2000);38
4.3;9. Evelyn Fix (1904–1965);44
4.4;10. Harold Hotelling (1895–1973);46
4.5;11. Three Ph.D. Godfathers;49
5;Early Collaborators;53
5.1;12. Henry Scheffé (1907–1977);54
5.2;13. Charles Stein (b. 1920);56
5.3;14. Hodges–Lehmann I: Parametric Inference;61
5.4;15. Herman Chernoff (b. 1923) and Raj Bahadur ( 1924– 1997);63
6;Mathematical Statistics at Other Universities;68
6.1;16. Abraham Wald (1902–1950);69
6.2;17. Jacob (Jack) Wolfowitz (1910–1981);75
6.3;18. William Feller (1906–1970);78
6.4;19. Albert H. Bowker (b. 1919);81
6.5;20. W. Allen Wallis (1912–1998);86
6.6;21. Samuel S. Wilks (1906–1964);90
7;The Annals;90
7.1;22. Wilks’ Successors;96
7.2;23. Ingram Olkin (b. 1924);97
8;The Berkeley Statistics Department I: Establishment and First Generation;101
8.1;24. Neyman’s Struggle;102
8.2;25. David Blackwell (b. 1919);108
8.3;26. Lucien Le Cam (1924–2000);112
8.4;27. Elizabeth Scott (1917–1988);116
8.5;28. E.L. Lehmann (b. 1917) I: Department Chair;119
8.6;29. E.L. Lehmann II: Teaching and Writing;123
8.7;30. F.N. David (1909–1993);127
8.8;31. Students: From Colin Blyth (b. 1922) to Javier Rojo ( b. 1951);130
9;The Berkeley Statistics Department II: The Second Generation;136
9.1;32. Peter J. Bickel (b. 1940);136
9.2;33. Kjell Doksum (b. 1940);139
9.3;34. David R. Brillinger (b. 1937);140
9.4;35. David Freedman (b. 1938);142
10;The Stanford Statistics Department;146
10.1;36. Meyer Abraham (Abe) Girshick (1908–1955);147
10.2;37. Lincoln Moses (1921–2006);148
10.3;38. Theodore (Ted) W. Anderson (b. 1918);151
11;Nonparametrics and Robustness;154
11.1;39. Edwin J.G. Pitman (1897–1993);155
11.2;40. Hodges–Lehmann II: Nonparametrics;157
11.3;41. Wassily Hoeffding (1914–1991);159
11.4;42. Bradley Efron (b. 1938);162
11.5;43. Peter J. Huber (b. 1934);164
11.6;44. Frank Hampel (b. 1941);167
12;Foundations I: The Frequentist Approach;171
12.1;45. Richard von Mises (1883–1953);172
12.2;46. The Fisher–Neyman Controversy;176
12.3;47. Wald’s Decision Theory;180
12.4;48. Jack Carl Kiefer (1924–1981);183
12.5;49. Lawrence D. Brown (b. 1940);186
13;Foundations II: Bayesianism and Data Analysis;189
13.1;50. Leonard J. Savage (1917–1971);190
13.2;51. Dennis Lindley (b. 1923);193
13.3;52. James O. Berger (b. 1950);196
13.4;53. Herbert Robbins (1915–2001);199
13.5;54. John W. Tukey (1915–2000);203
13.6;55. Tukey’s Robust Statistics and Exploratory Data Analysis;207
14;Statistics Comes of Age;210
14.1;56. Harald Cramér (1893–1985);211
14.2;57. Samuel Kotz (b. 1930);216
14.3;58. Stephen M. Stigler (b. 1941);219
15;New Tasks and Relationships;222
15.1;59. Juliet P. Shaffer (b. 1932);223
15.2;60. Frederick Mosteller (1916–2006);227
15.3;61. Constance Reid (b. 1918);232
15.4;62. Persi Diaconis (b. 1945);235
16;England;240
16.1;63. R.A. Fisher (1890–1962);241
16.2;64. Egon S. Pearson (1895–1980) I: Collaboration and Friendship with Neyman ( 1894– 1981);246
16.3;65. Egon S. Pearson II: Other Work;251
16.4;66. David Cox (b. 1924);255
17;Contacts Abroad;259
17.1;67. Bartel L. van der Waerden (1903–1996);259
17.2;68. C.R. Rao (b. 1920);262
17.3;69. Zhongguo Zheng (b. 1938);267
17.4;70. Joseph (Yossi) A. Yahav (b. 1935);270
17.5;71. Willem (Bill) R. van Zwet (b. 1934);272
17.6;72. Van Zwet’s Gift;274
18;Afterword;280
19;Bibliography;281
20;Name Index;300
21;Subject Index;307