Breakthroughs in Statistics: Volume III Hardcover - 1997

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1. Introduction by R.E.Fancher: Galton, F. (1889) Co-relations and their measurement, chiefly from anthropometric data; 2. Introduction by K. Dietz: McKendrick, A.G.(1926) Applications of mathematics to medical problems; 3.Introduction by D.R. Cox: Yates, F.and Cochran, W.G.(1938) The analysis of groups of experiments; 4. Introduction by P.K. Sen: Rao, C.R.(1948) Large sample tests of statistical hypotheses concerning several parameters with application to problems of estimation; 5. Introduction by M.H. Gail: Cornfield, J.(1951) A method of estimating comparative rates from clinical data. Applications to cancer of the lung, breast and cervix; 6. Introduction by M. Calder and R.A. Davis: Whittle, P.(1953) The analysis of multiple stationary time series; 7. Introduction by E. Ronchetti: Daniels, H.E.(1954) Saddlepoint approximations in statistics; 8. Introduction by I.J. Good: Cooley, J.W. and Turkey, J.W.(1965) An algorithm for the machine calculation of complex Fourier series; 9. Introduction by R.J. Beran: Hajek, J.(1970) A characterization of limiting distributions of regular estimates; 10. Introduction by T.L. Lai: Hastings, W.K.(1970) Monte Carlo sampling methods using Markov chains and their applications; 11. Introduction by J.J. Deely: Lindley, D.V.and Smith, A.F.M.(1972) Bayes estimates for the linear model; 12. Introduction by R.L. Smith: Besag, J.(1974) Spatial interaction and the statistical analysis of lattice systems; 13. Introduction by J.F. Pfanzagl: Levit, B.Ya.(1974) On optimality of some statistical estimates; 14. Introduction by I.W. McKeague: Aalen, O.(1978) Nonparametric estimation of partial transition probabilities in multiple decrement models; 15. Introduction by G.G. Letac: Morris, C.N.(1982) Natural exponential families with quadratic variance functions; 16. Introduction by T.H. DiCiccio: Barndorff-Nielsen, O.E.(1983) On a formula for the distribution of the maximum likelihood estimator; 17. Introduction by P.J. Huber: Geman, S. and Geman, D.(1984) Stochastic relaxation, Gibbs distributions, and the Bayesian restoration of images; 18. Introduction by D.G. Simpson: Rousseeuw, P.J.(1984) Least median of squares regressions; 19. Introduction by P.J. Diggle. Liang, K.Y.and Zeger, S.L.(1986) Longitudinal data analysis using generalized linear models; 20. Introduction by E. Mammen. Hall, P.(1988) Theoretical comparison of bootstrap confidence intervals; 21. Introduction by D.M. Timerington: Gelfand, A.E.and Smith, A.F.M.(1990) Sampling-based approaches to calculating marginal densities