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A Celebration of Statistics

The ISI Centenary Volume A Volume to Celebrate the Founding of the International Statistical Institute in 1885

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. Anthony C. Atkinson

    1. Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England

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  2. Stephen E. Fienberg

    1. Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

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Table of contents (25 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Prediction and Entropy

    • Hirotugu Akaike
    Pages 1-24

  3. Statistical Developments in World War II: An International Perspective

    • Stephen E. Fienberg
    Pages 25-30

  4. Statistics in the United Kingdom, 1939–45

    • G. A. Barnard, R. L. Plackett
    Pages 31-55

  5. The Fascination of Sand

    • Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen, Preben Blæsild, Jens Ledet Jensen, Michael Sørensen
    Pages 57-87

  6. International Trends in Official Statistics

    • Petter Jakob Bjerve
    Pages 89-108

  7. Cohort Analysis in Epidemiology

    • N. E. Breslow
    Pages 109-143

  8. Psychiatric Statistics

    • Morris H. DeGroot, Juan E. Mezzich
    Pages 145-165

  9. Mathematical Models for Infectious Disease Statistics

    • K. Dietz, D. Schenzle
    Pages 167-204

  10. Evolutionary Origins of Statisticians and Statistics

    • J. Durbin
    Pages 205-231

  11. Statistical Computing: What’s Past is Prologue

    • William F. Eddy, James E. Gentle
    Pages 233-249

  12. Conditional Econometric Modeling: An Application to New House Prices in the United Kingdom

    • Neil R. Ericsson, D. F. Hendry
    Pages 251-285

  13. Large-Scale Social Experimentation in the United States

    • Stephen E. Fienberg, Burton Singer, Judith M. Tanur
    Pages 287-326

  14. The Development of Sample Surveys of Finite Populations

    • Morris H. Hansen, Tore Dalenius, Benjamin J. Tepping
    Pages 327-354

  15. On Some New Probabilistic Developments of Significance to Statistics: Martingales, Long Range Dependence, Fractals, and Random Fields

    • C. C. Heyde
    Pages 355-368

  16. Concepts of Robustness

    • Christopher Field
    Pages 369-375

  17. Robust Estimators of Location and Their Second-Order Asymptotic Relations

    • Jana Jurečková
    Pages 377-392

  18. Mathematical Statistics in the Humanities, and Some Related Problems in Astronomy

    • David G. Kendall
    Pages 393-408

  19. Reflections on the World Fertility Survey

    • Miloš Macura, John Cleland
    Pages 409-436

  20. Economic and Social Statistics for Comparative Assessments

    • E. Malinvaud
    Pages 437-463
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About this book

The International Statistical Institute was founded in 1885 and is therefore one of the world's oldest international scientific societies. The field of statistics is still expanding rapidly and possesses a rich variety of applications in many areas of human activity such as science, government, business, industry, and everyday affairs. In consequence, the celebration of the Institute's centenary in 1985 is of considerable interest not only to statisticians but also more widely to the international scientific community. As part of its centennial celebration planning the Institute decided to publish a volume of papers representing the immensely wide range of interests encompassed by statistics in its international context, viewed both from a historical and from a contemporary standpoint. We were fortunate in securing the services of Anthony Atkinson and Stephen Fienberg as Editors of this volume: they have worked hard over a period of several years to put together a most fascinating collection of papers. On behalf of the Institute it is my pleasant duty to thank them and the authors for their contributions. J. DURBIN, President International Statistical Institute Preface The papers in this volume were prepared to help celebrate the centenary of the International Statistical Institute. During the lSI's first 100 years statistics has matured, both as a scientific discipline and as a profession, in ways that the lSI's founders could not possibly have imagined.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England

    Anthony C. Atkinson

  • Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

    Stephen E. Fienberg

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Celebration of Statistics

  • Book Subtitle: The ISI Centenary Volume A Volume to Celebrate the Founding of the International Statistical Institute in 1885

  • Editors: Anthony C. Atkinson, Stephen E. Fienberg

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8560-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-96111-8Due: 01 August 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-8562-2Published: 08 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-8560-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 606

  • Topics: Applications of Mathematics

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