Reminiscences of a Statistician

This relatively nontechnical book is the first account of the history of statistics from the Fisher revolution to the computer revolution. It sketches the careers, and highlights some of the work, of 65 people in the field, all known personally to the author.

Professor Lehmann has known many remarkable statisticians and mathematicians. This book is an autobiographical account of his encounters, following the steps of his own career. Taken together, these sketches provide a very personal picture of the development of statistical theory from the 1930's to the 1970's. It is the period between two revolutions: that of Fisher, Neyman and Pearson, which laid the foundations for the classical statistical theory of that period; and the second revolution, forty years later, brought about by the advent of the computer, which turned statistics in new directions.

Professor Lehmann recalls the many remarkable statisticians and mathematicians he has known The first account of the history of statistics from the Fisher revolution to the computer revolution The stress is on ideas and technical material is held to a minimum Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Auteur
Erich L. Lehmann is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the American and National Academies, a former Editor of the Annals of Mathematical Statistics, and President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Chicago and Leiden, and was awarded the Wilks and Noether prizes. He is also the author of Testing Statistical Hypotheses, Theory of Point Estimation, and Elements of Large-Sample Theory, all published by Springer. Two more elementary books, Basic Concepts of Probability and Statistics (joint with Hodges) and Nonparametrics have recently been reissued by SIAM and Springer, respectively.

Contenu
Mathematical Preparation.- Becoming a Statistician.- Early Collaborators.- Mathematical Statistics at Other Universities.- The Annals.- The Berkeley Statistics Department I: Establishment and First Generation.- The Berkeley Statistics Department II: The Second Generation.- The Stanford Statistics Department.- Nonparametrics and Robustness.- Foundations I: The Frequentist Approach.- Foundations II: Bayesianism and Data Analysis.- Statistics Comes of Age.- New Tasks and Relationships.- England.- Contacts Abroad.