Breakthroughs in Statistics: Foundations and Basic Theory - Springer Series in Statistics 1st ed. 1992. Corr. 2nd printing 1993 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-143) and index. Table of Contents: by S. Geisser.- Fisher, R. A. (1922) On the Mathematical Foundations of Theoretical Statistics.- by T. W. Anderson.- Hotelling, H. (1931) The Generalization of Student s Ratio.- by E. L. Lehmann.- Neyman, J. and Pearson, E. S. (1933) On the Problem of the Most Efficient Tests of Statistical Hypotheses.- by D. A. S. Fraser.- by D. A. S. Fraser.- by R. E. Barlow.- de Finetti, B. (1937) Foresight: It s Logical Laws, Its Subjective Sources.- by M. R. Leadbetter.- Cramer, H. (1942) On Harmonic Analysis in Certain Functional Spaces.- by R. L. Smith.- Gnedenko, B. V. (1943) On the Limiting Distribution of the Maximum Term in a Random Series.- by P. K. Pathak.- Rao, C. R. (1945) Information and the Accuracy Attainable in the Estimation of Statistical Parameters.- by B. K. Ghosh.- Wald, A. (1945) Sequential Tests of Statistical Hypotheses.- by P. K. Sen.- Hoeffding, W. (1948) A Class of Statistics with Asymptotically Normal Distribution.- by L. Weiss.- Wald, A. (1949) Statistical Decision Functions.- by D. V. Lindley.- by D. V. Lindley.- by I. J. Good.- Robbins, H. E. (1955) An Empirical Bayes Approach to Statistics.- by H. P. Wynn.- Kiefer, J. C. (1959) Optimum Experimental Designs.- by B. Efron.- by B. Efron.- by J. F. Bj rnstad.- Birnbaum, A. (1962) On the Foundations of Statistical Inference.- by W. U. DuMouchel.- Edwards, W., Lindman, H., and Savage, L. J. (1963) Bayesian Statistical Inference for Psychological Research.- by N. Reid.- Fraser, D. A. S. (1966) Structural Probability and a Generalization.- by J. de Leeuw.- Akaike, H. (1973) Information Theory and an Extension of the Maximum Likelihood Principle. Publisher Marketing: A two volume collection of seminal papers in the statistical sciences written during the past 100 years. Each paper is preceded by an introduction written by an authority in the field providing background information.

Contributor Bio:  Kotz Chairman: Norman L. Johnson Emeritus Professor of Statistics University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Members of the Advisory Board: Stephen E. Fienberg Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics Carnegie Mellon University Nancy Reid Professor of Statistics University of Toronto D. Michael Titterington Professor of Statistics University of Glasgow Geoffrey S. Watson Emeritus Professor of Statistics Princeton University Editorial Assistant: Sheila Crain Southern Methodist University About the editors SAMUEL KOTZ, PhD, is Professor of Statistics at the University of Maryland at College Park. Dr. Kotz received his PhD in mathematical statistics from Cornell University and has held distinguished visiting positions at Bucknell University, Bowling Green State University, Tel Aviv University, University of Guelph, Harbin Institute of Technology (China), Lule University (Sweden), and Copenhagen University. He was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Athens in 1995 and from Bowling Green State University in 1996. In addition to serving as coordinating editor of Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Dr. Kotz is the coauthor of the classic four-volume Distributions in Statistics (now in its second edition), Urn Models and Applications, Symmetric Multivariate and Related Distributions, Educated Guessing, Process Capability Indices, Recent Results in Information Theory, and several Russian-English technical dictionaries. CAMPBELL B. READ, PhD, is Professor of Statistical Science at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge in England, and obtained a PhD in mathematical statistics from the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of several research papers in sequential analysis, properties of statistical distributions, and contingency table analysis, and is coauthor of the Handbook of the Normal Distribution. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, has served on the faculty of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and was a visiting scholar in 1987 at the University of Cambridge. DAVID L. BANKS, PhD, is Associate Professor of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Banks received his PhD in statistics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and has held visiting positions at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Cambridge. Contributor Bio:  Juel, Connie Francine Johnston, EdD, is Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she teaches courses in reading, language arts, and children's literature. Tutoring is a key part of her curriculum, as she believes that there is no better way to help preservice teachers learn how to teach beginning readers. Marcia Invernizzi, PhD, is Associate Professor of Reading Education at the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, where she also serves as Clinical Director of the McGuffey Reading Center. With Connie Juel, she cofounded the Book Buddies community volunteer tutorial program, which has served over 700 children since 1992. Dr. Invernizzi's research on the effectiveness of Book Buddies has been published in "The Reading Teacher "and "Scientific Studies of Reading," Connie Juel, PhD, is the Thomas G. Jewell Professor of Education at the Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, where she also serves as the Director of Studies in Learning to Read. She is codirector of the Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement and a former Associate Editor of "Reading Research Quarterly," Cofounder with Marcia Invernizzi of the Book Buddies tutorial program, Dr. Juel has published numerous research articles, chapters, and books on literacy acquisition. Contributor Bio:  Kotz, Samuel N. BALAKRISHNAN, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He has published widely in different areas of statistics including distribution theory, order statistics and reliability. He has authored a number of books including four volumes in "Distributions in Statistics Series" of Wiley, coauthored with N. L. Johnson and S. Kotz. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. CAMPBELL B. READ, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Statistical Science at the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge in England, and obtained a PhD in mathematical statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of several research papers in sequential analysis, properties of statistical distributions, and contingency table analysis. He is the author of several biographies appearing in "Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences" and of various entries in this Encyclopedia, and is a coauthor of "Handbook of the Normal Distribution," He is an elected member of the International Statistical institute, has served on the faculty of the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and was a Senior Research Scholar in 1987 at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. BRANI VIDAKOVIC, PhD, is Professor of Statistics at The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. He obtained a BS and MS in mathematics at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and a PhD instatistics at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He is the author or coauthor of several books and numerous research papers on minimax theory, wavelets and computational and applied statistics. Dr. Vidakovic is a member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, American Statistical Association, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, and Bernoulli Society, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. Contributor Bio:  Johnson, Norman L NORMAN L. JOHNSON, PHD, was Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Johnson was Editor-in-Chief (with Dr. Kotz) of the "Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences," Second Edition (Wiley). ADRIENNE W. KEMP, PHD, is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Mathematical Institute, University of St. Andrews in Scotland. SAMUEL KOTZ, PHD, is Professor and Research Scholar, Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, The George Washington University in Washington, DC.