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A Statistical Model

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A look at Fred Mosteller’s bibliography reveals that he has had a hand (usually two) in well over fifty books—as author, coauthor, coeditor, or collaborator. Many of the titles are immediately familiar, either in statistics or in a number of other fields (as we should expect from the portrait of Fred as a scientific generalist—Chapter 3).

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Hoaglin, D.C. (1990). Reviews of Book Contributions. In: Fienberg, S.E., Hoaglin, D.C., Kruskal, W.H., Tanur, J.M. (eds) A Statistical Model. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3384-8_8

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