The Pleasures of Statistics

by Mosteller, Frederick; Fienberg, Stephen E.; Hoaglin, David C.; Tanue, Judith M.

• ISBN13: 9780387779553
• ISBN10: 0387779558
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-30
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

Through his own voice, renowned statistician and educator Frederick Mosteller describes the many projects and events that constituted his more than 60-year career. From his humble beginnings in Western Pennsylvania, to becoming the founding chairman of Harvard University's Department of Statistics, Frederick Mosteller inspired many statisticians, scientists, and students with his unabashed pragmatism, creative thinking, and insatiable spirit for both learning and teaching. Now more than twenty years after its initial inception, Frederick Mosteller's story as he meant for it to be told is available to a new generation of statisticians and researchers.This volume is a companion to Selected Papers of Frederick Mosteller, edited by Stephen E. Fienberg and David C. Hoaglin (Springer, 2006) and the earlier volume, A Statistical Model: Frederick Mosteller's Contributions to Statistics, Science, and Public Policy, edited by Stephen E. Fienberg, David C. Hoaglin, William H. Kruskal, and Judith M. Tanur (Springer-Verlag, 1990).

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
List of Figures	p. xiii
Examples of Quantitative Studies
Introduction	p. 3
Why Did Dewey Beat Truman in the Pre-election Polls of 1948?	p. 5
Sexual Behavior in the United States: The Kinsey Report	p. 19
Learning Theory: Founding Mathematical Psychology	p. 31
Who Wrote the Disputed Federalist Papers, Hamilton or Madison?	p. 47
The Safety of Anesthetics: The National Halothane Study	p. 69
Equality of Educational Opportunity: The Coleman Report	p. 89
Early Life and Education
Childhood	p. 113
Secondary School	p. 123
Carnegie Institute of Technology	p. 133
Graduate Schools: Carnegie and Princeton	p. 145
Magic	p. 157
Beginning Research	p. 163
Completing the Doctorate	p. 183
Coming to Harvard University	p. 191
Organizing Statistics	p. 203
Continuing Activities
Evaluation	p. 217
Teaching	p. 243
Group Writing	p. 271
The Cape	p. 283
Biostatistics	p. 289
Health Policy and Management	p. 293
Health Science Policy	p. 297
Editors' Epilogue	p. 305
Name Index	p. 323
Subject Index	p. 335
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