9783540961116 - A Celebration of Statistics: The ISI Centenary Volume. A Volume to Celebrate the Founding of the International Statistical Institute in 1885 (2 Ergebnisse)

606 S., orig.Pappband ; Sprache: englisch ; guter Zustand, keine Gebrauchsspuren, ohne Schutzumschlag ;

Zustand: very good. Berlin & New York: Springer Verlag, 1985. Hardcover. xv. 606 pp. Index. Condition : fine. Contents : 1. Prediction and Entropy -- 2. Statistical Developments in World War II: An International Perspective -- 3. Statistics in the United Kingdom, 1939-45 -- 4. The Fascination of Sand -- 5. International Trends in Official Statistics -- 6. Cohort Analysis in Epidemiology -- 7. Psychiatric Statistics -- 8. Mathematical Models for Infectious Disease Statistics -- 9. Evolutionary Origins of Statisticians and Statistics -- 10. Statistical Computing: What's Past Is Prologue -- 11. Conditional Econometric Modeling: An Application to New House Prices in the United Kingdom -- 12. Large-Scale Social Experimentation in the United States -- 13. The Development of Sample Surveys of Finite Populations -- 14. On Some New Probabilistic Developments of Significance to Statistics: Martingales, Long Range Dependence, Fractals, and Random Fields -- 15. Concepts of Robustness -- 16. Robust Estimators of Location and Their Second-Order Asymptotic Relations -- 17. Mathematical Statistics in the Humanities, and Some Related Problems in Astronomy -- 18. Reflections on the World Fertility Survey -- 19. Economic and Social Statistics for Comparative Assessments -- 20. An Introduction to the Optimum Design of Experiments -- 21. Experimental Design in Russian Practice -- 22. Agricultural Experimentation in a Developing Country -- 23. On the Statistical Analysis of Floods -- 24. Weighted Distributions Arising Out of Methods of Ascertainment: What Population Does a Sample Represent? -- 25. Statistical Problems in Crop Forecasting -- Author Index. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9783540961116. Keywords : MATHEMATICS, statistics.