A Statistical Model Frederick Mosteller’s Contributions to Statistics, Science, and Public Policy
A large number of Mostellar's friends, colleagues, collaborators, and former students have contributed to the preparation of this volume in honor of his 70th birthday. It provides a critical assessment of Mosteller's professional and research contributions to the field of statistics and it...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1990, 1990
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1990 |
| Series: | Perspectives in Statistics
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Table of Contents:
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Public Opinion Polls and Other Survey Data
- 5.3 Quality Control
- 5.4 On Pooling Data
- 5.5 Thurstone-Mosteller Model for Paired Comparisons
- 5.6 Measuring Utility
- 5.7 Measuring Pain
- 5.8 The Analysis of Categorical Data
- 5.9 Statistics and Sports
- 5.10 The Jackknife
- 5.11 Meta-Analysis in the Social and Medical Sciences
- 5.12 Summary
- Appendix: Frederick Mosteller, Social Science, and the Meta-Analytic Age
- References
- 6 Fred as Educator
- 6.1 Precollege Education—Advocacy and Action
- 6.2 Face-to-Face Teaching in Traditional and Nontraditional Settings
- 6.3 On Teaching Teachers
- 6.4 Evaluating Education and Evaluating Educational Evaluations
- 6.5 The Learning Process—Research, Teaching, and Practice
- 6.6 Continuing Education
- References
- 7 Fred at Harvard
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Inthe Department of Social Relations
- 7.3 In the Department of Statistics
- Weather and Climate Modification, Michael Sutherland
- Costs, Risks, and Benefits of Surgery, Howard H. Hiatt
- Statistics and Public Policy, Michael A. Stoto
- Data Analysis and Regression, Sanford Weisberg
- Data for Decisions, William B. Fairley
- Statistician’s Guide to Exploratory Data Analysis, Persi Diaconis
- Beginning Statistics with Data Analysis, John D. Emerson
- Biostatistics in Clinical Medicine, Joel C. Kleinman
- 1 Biography
- 2 Bibliography
- Books
- Papers
- Miscellaneous
- Reviews
- 3 Contributions as a Scientific Generalist
- 3.1 Background
- 3.2 Creation and Generalization within Statistics
- 3.3 Overlaps between Statistics and Other Domains
- 3.4 Establishing Links among Nonstatistical Fields
- 3.5 Links between Research and Applications
- 3.6 Formation of New Fields of Inquiry
- 3.7 Encouragement of Other Scholars
- 3.8 Institutional Leadership in Science
- Appendix 1: The Mosteller Years at AAAS
- Appendix 2: Resolution Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation
- 4 Contributions to Mathematical Statistics
- 4.1 Systematic Statistics
- 4.2 Slippage Tests: “The Problem of the Greatest One”
- 4.3 Stochastic Models for Learning
- 4.4 Products of Random Matrices, Computer Image Generation, and Computer Learning
- 4.5 Number Theory—Statistics for the Love of It
- References
- 5 Contributions to Methodology and Applications
- 7.4 In the Kennedy School of Government and the Law School
- 7.5 In the School of Public Health
- 7.6 The “Statistician’s Guide to Exploratory Data Analysis”
- 7.7 Epilogue
- Appendix: Excerpts from “Some Topics of Interest to Graduate Students in Statistics”
- References
- 8 Reviews of Book Contributions
- Sampling Inspection, W. Allen Wallis
- The Pre-Election Polls of 1948, Richard F. Link
- Statistical Problems of the Kinsey Report, James A. Davis
- Stochastic Models for Learning, Paul W. Holland
- Probability with Statistical Applications, Emanuel Parzen
- The Federalist, John W. Pratt
- Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability, Joseph I. Naus
- On Equality of Educational Opportunity, Richard J. Light
- Federal Statistics, Yvonne M. Bishop
- National Assessment of Educational Progress, Lyle V. Jones
- Statistics: A Guide to the Unknown, Gudmund R. Iversen
- Sturdy Statistics, Ralph B. D’Agostino
- Statistics by Example, Janet D. Elashoff