Reminiscences of a Statistician - The Company I Kept

Preface

Contents

1. Edmund Landau (1877–1938)

Mathematical Preparation

2. Rolf Noskwith (b. 1919)

3. Richard Courant (1888–1971)

4. Griffith C. Evans (1887–1973)

5. Raphael Robinson (1911–1995) and Julia Bowman Robinson ( 1919– 1985)

6. Jerzy Neyman (1894–1981) and Alfred Tarski ( 1901– 1983)

Becoming a Statistician

7. Jerzy Neyman—the Teacher and Scientist

8. Joseph L. Hodges, Jr. (1922–2000)

9. Evelyn Fix (1904–1965)

10. Harold Hotelling (1895–1973)

11. Three Ph.D. Godfathers

Early Collaborators

12. Henry Scheffé (1907–1977)

13. Charles Stein (b. 1920)

14. Hodges–Lehmann I: Parametric Inference

15. Herman Chernoff (b. 1923) and Raj Bahadur ( 1924– 1997)

Mathematical Statistics at Other Universities

16. Abraham Wald (1902–1950)

17. Jacob (Jack) Wolfowitz (1910–1981)

18. William Feller (1906–1970)

19. Albert H. Bowker (b. 1919)

20. W. Allen Wallis (1912–1998)

21. Samuel S. Wilks (1906–1964)

The Annals

22. Wilks’ Successors

23. Ingram Olkin (b. 1924)

The Berkeley Statistics Department I: Establishment and First Generation

24. Neyman’s Struggle

25. David Blackwell (b. 1919)

26. Lucien Le Cam (1924–2000)

27. Elizabeth Scott (1917–1988)

28. E.L. Lehmann (b. 1917) I: Department Chair

29. E.L. Lehmann II: Teaching and Writing

30. F.N. David (1909–1993)

31. Students: From Colin Blyth (b. 1922) to Javier Rojo ( b. 1951)

The Berkeley Statistics Department II: The Second Generation

32. Peter J. Bickel (b. 1940)

33. Kjell Doksum (b. 1940)

34. David R. Brillinger (b. 1937)

35. David Freedman (b. 1938)

The Stanford Statistics Department

36. Meyer Abraham (Abe) Girshick (1908–1955)

37. Lincoln Moses (1921–2006)

38. Theodore (Ted) W. Anderson (b. 1918)

Nonparametrics and Robustness

39. Edwin J.G. Pitman (1897–1993)

40. Hodges–Lehmann II: Nonparametrics

41. Wassily Hoeffding (1914–1991)

42. Bradley Efron (b. 1938)

43. Peter J. Huber (b. 1934)

44. Frank Hampel (b. 1941)

Foundations I: The Frequentist Approach

45. Richard von Mises (1883–1953)

46. The Fisher–Neyman Controversy

47. Wald’s Decision Theory

48. Jack Carl Kiefer (1924–1981)

49. Lawrence D. Brown (b. 1940)

Foundations II: Bayesianism and Data Analysis

50. Leonard J. Savage (1917–1971)

51. Dennis Lindley (b. 1923)

52. James O. Berger (b. 1950)

53. Herbert Robbins (1915–2001)

54. John W. Tukey (1915–2000)

55. Tukey’s Robust Statistics and Exploratory Data Analysis

Statistics Comes of Age

56. Harald Cramér (1893–1985)

57. Samuel Kotz (b. 1930)

58. Stephen M. Stigler (b. 1941)

New Tasks and Relationships

59. Juliet P. Shaffer (b. 1932)

60. Frederick Mosteller (1916–2006)

61. Constance Reid (b. 1918)

62. Persi Diaconis (b. 1945)

England

63. R.A. Fisher (1890–1962)

64. Egon S. Pearson (1895–1980) I: Collaboration and Friendship with Neyman ( 1894– 1981)

65. Egon S. Pearson II: Other Work

66. David Cox (b. 1924)

Contacts Abroad

67. Bartel L. van der Waerden (1903–1996)

68. C.R. Rao (b. 1920)

69. Zhongguo Zheng (b. 1938)

70. Joseph (Yossi) A. Yahav (b. 1935)

71. Willem (Bill) R. van Zwet (b. 1934)

72. Van Zwet’s Gift

Afterword

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index