Ebook: A Celebration of Statistics: The ISI Centenary Volume A Volume to Celebrate the Founding of the International Statistical Institute in 1885

The International Statistical Institute was founded in 1885 and is therefore one of the world's oldest international scientific societies. The field of statistics is still expanding rapidly and possesses a rich variety of applications in many areas of human activity such as science, government, business, industry, and everyday affairs. In consequence, the celebration of the Institute's centenary in 1985 is of considerable interest not only to statisticians but also more widely to the international scientific community. As part of its centennial celebration planning the Institute decided to publish a volume of papers representing the immensely wide range of interests encompassed by statistics in its international context, viewed both from a historical and from a contemporary standpoint. We were fortunate in securing the services of Anthony Atkinson and Stephen Fienberg as Editors of this volume: they have worked hard over a period of several years to put together a most fascinating collection of papers. On behalf of the Institute it is my pleasant duty to thank them and the authors for their contributions. J. DURBIN, President International Statistical Institute Preface The papers in this volume were prepared to help celebrate the centenary of the International Statistical Institute. During the lSI's first 100 years statistics has matured, both as a scientific discipline and as a profession, in ways that the lSI's founders could not possibly have imagined.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Prediction and Entropy....Pages 1-24
Statistical Developments in World War II: An International Perspective....Pages 25-30
Statistics in the United Kingdom, 1939–45....Pages 31-55
The Fascination of Sand....Pages 57-87
International Trends in Official Statistics....Pages 89-108
Cohort Analysis in Epidemiology....Pages 109-143
Psychiatric Statistics....Pages 145-165
Mathematical Models for Infectious Disease Statistics....Pages 167-204
Evolutionary Origins of Statisticians and Statistics....Pages 205-231
Statistical Computing: What’s Past is Prologue....Pages 233-249
Conditional Econometric Modeling: An Application to New House Prices in the United Kingdom....Pages 251-285
Large-Scale Social Experimentation in the United States....Pages 287-326
The Development of Sample Surveys of Finite Populations....Pages 327-354
On Some New Probabilistic Developments of Significance to Statistics: Martingales, Long Range Dependence, Fractals, and Random Fields....Pages 355-368
Concepts of Robustness....Pages 369-375
Robust Estimators of Location and Their Second-Order Asymptotic Relations....Pages 377-392
Mathematical Statistics in the Humanities, and Some Related Problems in Astronomy....Pages 393-408
Reflections on the World Fertility Survey....Pages 409-436
Economic and Social Statistics for Comparative Assessments....Pages 437-463
An Introduction to the Optimum Design of Experiments....Pages 465-473
Experimental Design in Russian Practice....Pages 475-496
Agricultural Experimentation in a Developing Country....Pages 497-510
On the Statistical Analysis of Floods....Pages 511-541
Weighted Distributions Arising Out of Methods of Ascertainment: What Population Does a Sample Represent?....Pages 543-569
Statistical Problems in Crop Forecasting....Pages 571-584
Back Matter....Pages 585-606

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Prediction and Entropy....Pages 1-24
Statistical Developments in World War II: An International Perspective....Pages 25-30
Statistics in the United Kingdom, 1939–45....Pages 31-55
The Fascination of Sand....Pages 57-87
International Trends in Official Statistics....Pages 89-108
Cohort Analysis in Epidemiology....Pages 109-143
Psychiatric Statistics....Pages 145-165
Mathematical Models for Infectious Disease Statistics....Pages 167-204
Evolutionary Origins of Statisticians and Statistics....Pages 205-231
Statistical Computing: What’s Past is Prologue....Pages 233-249
Conditional Econometric Modeling: An Application to New House Prices in the United Kingdom....Pages 251-285
Large-Scale Social Experimentation in the United States....Pages 287-326
The Development of Sample Surveys of Finite Populations....Pages 327-354
On Some New Probabilistic Developments of Significance to Statistics: Martingales, Long Range Dependence, Fractals, and Random Fields....Pages 355-368
Concepts of Robustness....Pages 369-375
Robust Estimators of Location and Their Second-Order Asymptotic Relations....Pages 377-392
Mathematical Statistics in the Humanities, and Some Related Problems in Astronomy....Pages 393-408
Reflections on the World Fertility Survey....Pages 409-436
Economic and Social Statistics for Comparative Assessments....Pages 437-463
An Introduction to the Optimum Design of Experiments....Pages 465-473
Experimental Design in Russian Practice....Pages 475-496
Agricultural Experimentation in a Developing Country....Pages 497-510
On the Statistical Analysis of Floods....Pages 511-541
Weighted Distributions Arising Out of Methods of Ascertainment: What Population Does a Sample Represent?....Pages 543-569
Statistical Problems in Crop Forecasting....Pages 571-584
Back Matter....Pages 585-606
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