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Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)

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Creators: Norman L. Johnson, Samuel Kotz
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Category: Book

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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9

ISBN: 0471163813
Dewey Decimal Number: 510.922
EAN: 9780471163817
ASIN: 0471163813

Publication Date: May 23, 1997
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A fascinating chronicle of the lives and achievements of the men and women who helped shapethe science of statisticsbr br This handsomely illustrated volume will make enthralling reading for scientists, mathematicians, and science history buffs alike. Spanning nearly four centuries, it chronicles the lives and achievements of more than 110 of the most prominent names in theoretical and applied statistics and probability. From Bernoulli to Markov, Poisson to Wiener, you will find intimate profiles of women and men whose work led to significant advances in the areas of statistical inference and theory, probability theory, government and economic statistics, medical and agricultural statistics, and science and engineering. To help readers arrive at a fuller appreciation of the contributions these pioneers made, the authors vividly re-create the times in which they lived while exploring the major intellectual currents that shaped their thinking and propelled their discoveries.br br Lavishly illustrated with more than 40 authentic photographs and woodcuts br * Includes a comprehensive timetable of statistics from the seventeenth century to the present br * Features edited chapters written by 75 experts from around the globe br * Designed for easy reference, features a unique numbering scheme that matches the subject profiled with his or her particular field of interest

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4 out of 5 stars

What happened to J M Keynes,G Boole,and B.Mandelbrot? November 1, 2004
I highly recommend this book for the general interest reader.It contains a number of short,but informative,essays,each covering ,on average,2-10 pages.Each essay gives a short biography of an individual scholar who has made a relevant contribution to either theoretical or applied statistics or probability.The contribution is assessed and discussed.Those covered include Sir Ronald Fisher,de Finetti,Ramsey,Savage,Galton,Yule,Karl and Egon Pearson, Harold Jeffreys,and W. Lexis,to name just a few.Surprisingly,the contributions of John Maynard Keynes,George Boole and Benoit Mandelbrot to applied probability and statistics are not covered although each is briefly mentioned in essays covering others.Thus,for instance,Keynes is mentioned in the essay on Frank Ramsey,but no clue is provided the reader about Keynes's original contribution to probability,which was the first systematic exposition of an interval estimate approach to probability analysis based on the work of George Boole.Keynes's contribution is contained in chapters 5,10,15,17 and Part III of his 1921 masterpiece,A Treatise on Probability.Mandelbrot's work,demonstating that there is little,if any, support for the overwhelming use of the normal probability distribution in the study of price movements in financial,stock and commodity markets by financial analysts and economists,calls into question the entire foundation of financial theory that has been built upon the Capital Asset Pricing Model(CAPM)and the Black-Scholes equation.This reviewer feels that the editors could of at least devoted three pages to each of the above mentioned scholars.

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