Suchen und Finden
Preface
6
Contents
8
1. Edmund Landau (1877–1938)
12
Mathematical Preparation
12
2. Rolf Noskwith (b. 1919)
18
3. Richard Courant (1888–1971)
19
4. Griffith C. Evans (1887–1973)
21
5. Raphael Robinson (1911–1995) and Julia Bowman Robinson ( 1919– 1985)
24
6. Jerzy Neyman (1894–1981) and Alfred Tarski ( 1901– 1983)
28
Becoming a Statistician
28
7. Jerzy Neyman—the Teacher and Scientist
33
8. Joseph L. Hodges, Jr. (1922–2000)
38
9. Evelyn Fix (1904–1965)
44
10. Harold Hotelling (1895–1973)
46
11. Three Ph.D. Godfathers
49
Early Collaborators
53
12. Henry Scheffé (1907–1977)
54
13. Charles Stein (b. 1920)
56
14. Hodges–Lehmann I: Parametric Inference
61
15. Herman Chernoff (b. 1923) and Raj Bahadur ( 1924– 1997)
63
Mathematical Statistics at Other Universities
68
16. Abraham Wald (1902–1950)
69
17. Jacob (Jack) Wolfowitz (1910–1981)
75
18. William Feller (1906–1970)
78
19. Albert H. Bowker (b. 1919)
81
20. W. Allen Wallis (1912–1998)
86
21. Samuel S. Wilks (1906–1964)
90
The Annals
90
22. Wilks’ Successors
96
23. Ingram Olkin (b. 1924)
97
The Berkeley Statistics Department I: Establishment and First Generation
101
24. Neyman’s Struggle
102
25. David Blackwell (b. 1919)
108
26. Lucien Le Cam (1924–2000)
112
27. Elizabeth Scott (1917–1988)
116
28. E.L. Lehmann (b. 1917) I: Department Chair
119
29. E.L. Lehmann II: Teaching and Writing
123
30. F.N. David (1909–1993)
127
31. Students: From Colin Blyth (b. 1922) to Javier Rojo ( b. 1951)
130
The Berkeley Statistics Department II: The Second Generation
136
32. Peter J. Bickel (b. 1940)
136
33. Kjell Doksum (b. 1940)
139
34. David R. Brillinger (b. 1937)
140
35. David Freedman (b. 1938)
142
The Stanford Statistics Department
146
36. Meyer Abraham (Abe) Girshick (1908–1955)
147
37. Lincoln Moses (1921–2006)
148
38. Theodore (Ted) W. Anderson (b. 1918)
151
Nonparametrics and Robustness
154
39. Edwin J.G. Pitman (1897–1993)
155
40. Hodges–Lehmann II: Nonparametrics
157
41. Wassily Hoeffding (1914–1991)
159
42. Bradley Efron (b. 1938)
162
43. Peter J. Huber (b. 1934)
164
44. Frank Hampel (b. 1941)
167
Foundations I: The Frequentist Approach
171
45. Richard von Mises (1883–1953)
172
46. The Fisher–Neyman Controversy
176
47. Wald’s Decision Theory
180
48. Jack Carl Kiefer (1924–1981)
183
49. Lawrence D. Brown (b. 1940)
186
Foundations II: Bayesianism and Data Analysis
189
50. Leonard J. Savage (1917–1971)
190
51. Dennis Lindley (b. 1923)
193
52. James O. Berger (b. 1950)
196
53. Herbert Robbins (1915–2001)
199
54. John W. Tukey (1915–2000)
203
55. Tukey’s Robust Statistics and Exploratory Data Analysis
207
Statistics Comes of Age
210
56. Harald Cramér (1893–1985)
211
57. Samuel Kotz (b. 1930)
216
58. Stephen M. Stigler (b. 1941)
219
New Tasks and Relationships
222
59. Juliet P. Shaffer (b. 1932)
223
60. Frederick Mosteller (1916–2006)
227
61. Constance Reid (b. 1918)
232
62. Persi Diaconis (b. 1945)
235
England
240
63. R.A. Fisher (1890–1962)
241
64. Egon S. Pearson (1895–1980) I: Collaboration and Friendship with Neyman ( 1894– 1981)
246
65. Egon S. Pearson II: Other Work
251
66. David Cox (b. 1924)
255
Contacts Abroad
259
67. Bartel L. van der Waerden (1903–1996)
259
68. C.R. Rao (b. 1920)
262
69. Zhongguo Zheng (b. 1938)
267
70. Joseph (Yossi) A. Yahav (b. 1935)
270
71. Willem (Bill) R. van Zwet (b. 1934)
272
72. Van Zwet’s Gift
274
Afterword
280
Bibliography
281
Name Index
300
Subject Index
307
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