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
Professor Cox's primary research interests are nonparametric function estimation, stochastic processes, statistical computing, and the application of statistical methods to complex scientific and technological problems, such as testing theories against experimental data when computational complexity limits the number of theoretical predictions that can be obtained.
Many such problems involve estimation of unknown constants or even unknown functions. Professor Cox has done fundamental research in the use of spline functions for such applications and extensive work in developing methodologies and practical computational approaches. He has collaborated with investigators from such disciplines as electrical engineering, neurophysiology, oncology, and economics but currently is most active in applications in nuclear fusion research. He expects that there will be applications for such methodologies in materials science and atmospheric science as well. Professor Cox has also done theoretical work in nonparametric function estimation, statistical approximation theory, and Bayesian methods.
Florence Nightingale: The passionate statistician
She pioneered the use of applied statistics to develop policy and developed novel ways of displaying them.
By Julie Rehmeyer
Web edition : Wednesday, November 26th, 200
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
R first appeared in 1996, when the statistics professors Robert Gentleman, left, and Ross Ihaka released the code as a free software package.
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By ASHLEE VANCE
Published: January 6, 2009
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