This book aims to show the beauty and diversity of statistics, usually telling the development, application and interesting stories of statistics in an easy-to-understand way. The content of this book focuses on the wide application of statistics in human society, scientific research, engineering practice and other fields, while also emphasizing its philosophical significance and profound impact on decision-making.

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Statistik
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• Front Matter
• Prediction and Entropy
• Statistical Developments in World War II: An International Perspective
• Statistics in the United Kingdom, 1939–45
• The Fascination of Sand
• International Trends in Official Statistics
• Cohort Analysis in Epidemiology
• Psychiatric Statistics
• Mathematical Models for Infectious Disease Statistics
• Evolutionary Origins of Statisticians and Statistics
• Statistical Computing: What’s Past is Prologue
• Conditional Econometric Modeling: An Application to New House Prices in the United Kingdom
• Large‑Scale Social Experimentation in the United States
• The Development of Sample Surveys of Finite Populations
• On Some New Probabilistic Developments of Significance to Statistics: Martingales, Long Range Dependence, Fractals, and Random Fields
• Concepts of Robustness
• Robust Estimators of Location and Their Second‑Order Asymptotic Relations
• Mathematical Statistics in the Humanities, and Some Related Problems in Astronomy
• Reflections on the World Fertility Survey
• Economic and Social Statistics for Comparative Assessments

Book Title
A Celebration of Statistics

Book Subtitle
The ISI Centenary Volume A Volume to Celebrate the Founding of the International Statistical Institute in 1885

Editors
Anthony C. Atkinson, Stephen E. Fienberg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8560-8

Hardcover ISBN
978-0-387-96111-8
Due: 01 August 1985

Softcover ISBN
978-1-4613-8562-2
Published: 08 November 2011

eBook ISBN
978-1-4613-8560-8
Published: 06 December 2012

Edition Number
1

Number of Pages
XV, 606

Topics
Applications of Mathematics