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Breakthroughs in statistics. Volume II: Methodology and distribution. (English) Zbl 0758.62002

Springer Series in Statistics. Perspectives in Statistics. New York etc.: Springer-Verlag. xxi, 600 p. (1992).
[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually. For Vol. I see the preceding review.]
This second volume of the scientific papers collection concerning statistics which have been of great influence on the development of statistics considers the period 1890-1970. It contains original articles by:
K. Pearson (1900), R. A. Fisher (1925), R. A. Fisher (1926), A. N. Kolmogorov (1933), J. Neyman (1934), H. Hotelling (1936), F. Wilcoxon (1945), F. Mosteller (1946), J. Durbin and G. S. Watson (1950 and 1951), G. E. P. Box and K. B. Wilson (1951), E. L. Kaplan and P. Meier (1958), H. Chernoff (1959), G. E. P. Box and G. M. Jenkins (1962), J. W. Tukey (1962), M. W. Birch (1963), P. J. Huber (1964), D. R. Cox (1972), J. A. Nelder and R. W. M. Wedderburn (1972), and B. Efron (1979).
Each item is prefaced by a prominent statistician.
Reviewer: H.Strasser (Wien)

MSC:

62-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to statistics
00B60 Collections of reprinted articles
62A01 Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics