Michael
2009-Jun-19 14:25 UTC
[R] [Repost][Off Topic] Pointers needed for breakthrough in statistics
Hi all, Sorry for the reposting... I was advised to repost this question with more specific title. I apologize for this off-topic question but I really need your help -- I know there are lots of experts here. As a lover and student of statistics, I am thinking of building a tree of various branches of statistics and keeping track of the greatest historical inventions/discoveries in statistics and the latest development of each branch. The goal is to understand in what context did the great inventions come out and then try to follow the greatest minds in terms of creating future significant inventions/discoveries in the statistics field... This is the "learn-from-the-greatest-minds" approach. Could anybody give me some pointers about existing books/articles about the greatest inventions/discoveries in statistics? And topic list? Here the "statistics" is in the broad sense, including data-mining, complex data-set, large data-set, etc. We also want to talk about not only the concepts, but also the tools and methodologies. Thanks a lot!
Ravi Varadhan
2009-Jun-19 14:37 UTC
[R] [Repost][Off Topic] Pointers needed for breakthrough in statistics
Hi, There is a three-volume series, published by Springer, called "Breakthroughs in Statistics", edited by Kotz and Johnson. Volume 1 is on Foundations and Basic Theory, Volume 2 is on Methodology, and Vol 3 has miscellaneous articles. Ravi. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, The Center on Aging and Health Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology Johns Hopkins University Ph: (410) 502-2619 Fax: (410) 614-9625 Email: rvaradhan at jhmi.edu Webpage: http://www.jhsph.edu/agingandhealth/People/Faculty_personal_pages/Varadhan.h tml ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- -----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 10:26 AM To: r-help Subject: [R] [Repost][Off Topic] Pointers needed for breakthrough in statistics Hi all, Sorry for the reposting... I was advised to repost this question with more specific title. I apologize for this off-topic question but I really need your help -- I know there are lots of experts here. As a lover and student of statistics, I am thinking of building a tree of various branches of statistics and keeping track of the greatest historical inventions/discoveries in statistics and the latest development of each branch. The goal is to understand in what context did the great inventions come out and then try to follow the greatest minds in terms of creating future significant inventions/discoveries in the statistics field... This is the "learn-from-the-greatest-minds" approach. Could anybody give me some pointers about existing books/articles about the greatest inventions/discoveries in statistics? And topic list? Here the "statistics" is in the broad sense, including data-mining, complex data-set, large data-set, etc. We also want to talk about not only the concepts, but also the tools and methodologies. Thanks a lot! ______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Juliet Hannah
2009-Jun-19 15:00 UTC
[R] [Repost][Off Topic] Pointers needed for breakthrough in statistics
You may find the following two books useful: Lehmann, Reminiscences of a Statistician (Springer). David Salsburg, The lady testing tea.
Tirthankar Chakravarty
2009-Jun-19 15:06 UTC
[R] [Repost][Off Topic] Pointers needed for breakthrough in statistics
You might find the articles of Stephen Stigler interesting: http://www.stat.uchicago.edu/faculty/stigler/pubs.html T On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Juliet Hannah<juliet.hannah at gmail.com> wrote:> You may find the following two books useful: > > Lehmann, Reminiscences of a Statistician (Springer). > > David Salsburg, The lady testing tea. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >-- To every ?-consistent recursive class ? of formulae there correspond recursive class signs r, such that neither v Gen r nor Neg(v Gen r) belongs to Flg(?) (where v is the free variable of r).
Ravi Varadhan
2009-Jun-19 15:55 UTC
[R] [Repost][Off Topic] Pointers needed for breakthrough in statistics
This gives a failrly long list: http://www.amazon.com/Books-history-Probability-Statistics/lm/R1WZ9DISAO6OGX Ravi. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Ravi Varadhan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, The Center on Aging and Health Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology Johns Hopkins University Ph: (410) 502-2619 Fax: (410) 614-9625 Email: rvaradhan at jhmi.edu Webpage: http://www.jhsph.edu/agingandhealth/People/Faculty_personal_pages/Varadhan.h tml ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- -----Original Message----- From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Michael Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 10:26 AM To: r-help Subject: [R] [Repost][Off Topic] Pointers needed for breakthrough in statistics Hi all, Sorry for the reposting... I was advised to repost this question with more specific title. I apologize for this off-topic question but I really need your help -- I know there are lots of experts here. As a lover and student of statistics, I am thinking of building a tree of various branches of statistics and keeping track of the greatest historical inventions/discoveries in statistics and the latest development of each branch. The goal is to understand in what context did the great inventions come out and then try to follow the greatest minds in terms of creating future significant inventions/discoveries in the statistics field... This is the "learn-from-the-greatest-minds" approach. Could anybody give me some pointers about existing books/articles about the greatest inventions/discoveries in statistics? And topic list? Here the "statistics" is in the broad sense, including data-mining, complex data-set, large data-set, etc. We also want to talk about not only the concepts, but also the tools and methodologies. Thanks a lot! ______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.