Statistics
Tales of Statisticians
Statistics too has its heroes, and it may humanize the subject to mention some of them here. Mathematical details have been avoided, and the history of philosophy has been largely evaded, but these sketches may at least help to suggest that statistical techniques emerged a step at a time, for real reasons, that real people invented them, and that once they were invented, real people sometimes further refined them, or continued to argue about their validity and implications.
* Thomas Bayes
* Eric Temple Bell
* Jacob Bernoulli
* Henry Thomas Buckle
* George B Dantzig
* Florence Nightingale David
* Abraham de Moivre
* Albert Einstein
* Ronald A Fisher
* Galileo Galilei
* Carl Friederich Gauss
* Corrado Gini
* Boris Gnedenko
* William S Gosset ("Student")
* Andrei Kolmogorov
* William Kruskal
* Pierre-Simon Laplace
* Lucien Le Cam
* Pierre de Montmort
* Frederick Mosteller
* John Napier
* Isaac Newton
* Jerzy Neyman
* Florence Nightingale
* Blaise Pascal
* Karl Pearson
* Siméon-Denis Poisson
* Adolphe Quetelet
* Jimmie Savage
* George Snedecor
* Charles Spearman
* Frank Wilcoxon
Jan de Leeuw is distinguished professor and chair at the Department of Statistics, University of California at Los Angeles. He has a 1973 Ph.D. in Social Sciences from the University of Leiden, Netherlands. He came to UCLA in 1987, after leading the Department of Data Theory at the University of Leiden for about 10 years.
His research is in psychometrics, multivariate analysis, multilevel analysis, and computational statistics. He has published several books and hundreds of research papers. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Royal Statistical Society. He is the editor in chief of the Journal of Multivariate Analysis, the founding and current editor of the Journal of Statiatical Software, a former editor of the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, a former president of the Psychometric Society, and a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.
Each year the JHEPS lists the books and articles on the history of probability and statistics that have appeared in the previous year. The list of 2007 publications is due to appear in February 2008. Of course, omissions can be made good at any time and, if you know of any in the list below, please contact me, John Aldrich
Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability
Proceedings of the Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability held at the Statistical Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. during the period 1945-1972.
ISSN: 0097-0433
Subjects:
Mathematical statistics--Congresses
Probabilities