The Making of Statisticians
Like many other scientists, I have long been interested in history. I enjoy reading about the minutiae of its daily unfolding: the coinage, food, clothes, games, literature and habits which characterize a people. I am carried away by the broad sweep of its major events: the wars, famines, migrations...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1982, 1982
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1982 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Probabilists
- Probability and My Life
- From Riemannian Spaces to Characteristic Functions: The Evolution of a Statistician
- A Life for Probability
- 2 Statisticians in Stochastic Processes and Independence
- Chance and Change
- The Search for the Meaning of Independence
- 3 Mathematical Statisticians
- From Pure Mathematics to Applied Statistics
- Autobiography of a Mathematical Statistician
- A Statistician’s Progress from Berlin to Chapel Hill
- Reminiscences of a Mathematician Who Strayed into Statistics
- 4 Statisticians in Design and Computing
- My Experience as a Statistician: From the Farm to the University
- A Numerate Life
- From Cosmos to Chaos: My Scientific Career in Mathematics, Statistics and Informatics
- 5 Statisticians in Industry and Econometrics
- The Making of an Industrial Statistician
- Models for Knowledge
- 6 Statisticians in Demography and Medicine
- A Statistician in the Public Health Service
- From Medicine, through Medical to Mathematical Statistics: Some Autobiographical Notes