Breakthroughs in Statistics Foundations and Basic Theory

This is a two volume collection of seminal papers in the statistical sciences written during the past 100 years. These papers have each had an outstanding influence on the development of statistical theory and practice over the last century. Each paper is preceded by an introduction written by an authority in the field providing background information and assessing its influence. Readers will enjoy a fresh outlook on now well-established features of statistical techniques and philosophy by becoming acquainted with the ways they have been developed. It is hoped that some readers will be stimulated to study some of the references provided in the Introductions (and also in the papers themselves) and so attain a deeper background knowledge of the basis of their work.

by S. Geisser.- Fisher, R.A. (1922) On the Mathematical Foundations of Theoretical Statistics.- by T.W. Anderson.- Hotelling, H. (1931) The Generalization of Student’s Ratio.- by E.L. Lehmann.- Neyman, J. and Pearson, E.S. (1933) On the Problem of the Most Efficient Tests of Statistical Hypotheses.- by D.A.S. Fraser.- by D.A.S. Fraser.- by R.E. Barlow.- de Finetti, B. (1937) Foresight: It’s Logical Laws, Its Subjective Sources.- by M.R. Leadbetter.- Cramér, H. (1942) On Harmonic Analysis in Certain Functional Spaces.- by R.L. Smith.- Gnedenko, B.V. (1943) On the Limiting Distribution of the Maximum Term in a Random Series.- by P.K. Pathak.- Rao, C.R. (1945) Information and the Accuracy Attainable in the Estimation of Statistical Parameters.- by B.K. Ghosh.- Wald, A. (1945) Sequential Tests of Statistical Hypotheses.- by P.K. Sen.- Hoeffding, W. (1948) A Class of Statistics with Asymptotically Normal Distribution.- by L. Weiss.- Wald, A. (1949) Statistical Decision Functions.- by D.V. Lindley.- by D.V. Lindley.- by I.J. Good.- Robbins, H.E. (1955) An Empirical Bayes Approach to Statistics.- by H.P. Wynn.- Kiefer, J.C. (1959) Optimum Experimental Designs.- by B. Efron.- by B. Efron.- by J.F. Bjþrnstad.- Birnbaum, A. (1962) On the Foundations of Statistical Inference.- by W.U. DuMouchel.- Edwards, W., Lindman, H., and Savage, L.J. (1963) Bayesian Statistical Inference for Psychological Research.- by N. Reid.- Fraser, D.A.S. (1966) Structural Probability and a Generalization.- by J. de Leeuw.- Akaike, H. (1973) Information Theory and an Extension of the Maximum Likelihood Principle.