Practice of Data Analysis - Essays in Honor of John W. Tukey

This collection of essays brings together many of the world's most distinguished statisticians to discuss a wide array of the most important recent developments in data analysis. The book honors John W. Tukey, one of the most influential statisticians of the twentieth century, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Contributors, some of them Tukey's former students, use his general theoretical work and his specific contributions to Exploratory Data Analysis as the point of departure for their papers. They cover topics from "pure" data analysis, such as gaussianizing transformations and regression estimates, and from "applied" subjects, such as the best way to rank the abilities of chess players or to estimate the abundance of birds in a particular area.

Tukey may be best known for coining the common computer term "bit," for binary digit, but his broader work has revolutionized the way statisticians think about and analyze sets of data. In a personal interview that opens the book, he reviews these extraordinary contributions and his life with characteristic modesty, humor, and intelligence. The book will be valuable both to researchers and students interested in current theoretical and practical data analysis and as a testament to Tukey's lasting influence.

The essays are by Dhammika Amaratunga, David Andrews, David Brillinger, Christopher Field, Leo Goodman, Frank Hampel, John Hartigan, Peter Huber, Mia Hubert, Clifford Hurvich, Karen Kafadar, Colin Mallows, Stephan Morgenthaler, Frederick Mosteller, Ha Nguyen, Elvezio Ronchetti, Peter Rousseeuw, Allan Seheult, Paul Velleman, Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser, and Alessandro Villa.

Originally published in 1998.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

List of contents

Preface Biographical Information Curriculum Vitae of John Wilder Tukey Ph.D. Theses Directed by John W. Tukey: Princeton University, 1940-1990 Partial List of John W. Tukey's Grandstudents A Conversation with John W. Tukey Elizabeth Tukey's Speech Program of the Conference in Honor of John W. Tukey on His 80th Birthday List of Participants Errors-in-Variables Regression Estimators That Have High Breakdown and High Gaussian Efficiency The Analytic Jackknife Assessing Connections in Networks of Biological Neurons Estimating Abundances for a Breeding Bird Atlas Statistical Methods, Graphical Displays, and Tukey's Ladder of Re-Expression in the Analysis of Nonindependence in Contingency Tables: Correspondence Analysis, Association Analysis, and the Midway View of Nonindependence Some Additional Notes on the "Princeton Robustness Year" Tracking Chees Players' Abilities Speculations on the Path of Statistics A Regression Analysis with Categorical Covariables, Two-way Heteroscedasticity, and Hidden Outliers Mean Square over Degrees of Freedom: New Perspectives on a Model Selection Treasure Geographical Trends in Cancer Mortality: Spatial Smoothers and Adjustment Covering Designs in Random Environments Gaussianizing Transformations and Estimation The Tennessee Study of Class Size in the Early School Grades On the Distribution of Order Statistics from a p-wild Distribution Resistant Modelling of Income Distributions and Inequality Measures Bonus Decompositions for Robust Analysis of 2[superscript n] Factorial Experiments The Philosophical Past and the Digital Future of Data Analysis: 375 Years of Philosophical Guidance for Software Design on the Occasion of John W. Tukey's 80th Birthday

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Edited by David R. Brillinger, Luisa T. Fernholz, & Stephan Morgenthaler

Summary

This collection of essays brings together many of the world's most distinguished statisticians to discuss a wide array of the most important recent developments in data analysis. The book honors John W. Tukey, one of the most influential statisticians of the twentieth century, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Contributors, some of them Tukey's former students, use his general theoretical work and his specific contributions to Exploratory Data Analysis as the point of departure for their papers. They cover topics from "pure" data analysis, such as gaussianizing transformations and regression estimates, and from "applied" subjects, such as the best way to rank the abilities of chess players or to estimate the abundance of birds in a particular area.

Tukey may be best known for coining the common computer term "bit," for binary digit, but his broader work has revolutionized the way statisticians think about and analyze sets of data. In a personal interview that opens the book, he reviews these extraordinary contributions and his life with characteristic modesty, humor, and intelligence. The book will be valuable both to researchers and students interested in current theoretical and practical data analysis and as a testament to Tukey's lasting influence.

The essays are by Dhammika Amaratunga, David Andrews, David Brillinger, Christopher Field, Leo Goodman, Frank Hampel, John Hartigan, Peter Huber, Mia Hubert, Clifford Hurvich, Karen Kafadar, Colin Mallows, Stephan Morgenthaler, Frederick Mosteller, Ha Nguyen, Elvezio Ronchetti, Peter Rousseeuw, Allan Seheult, Paul Velleman, Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser, and Alessandro Villa.

Originally published in 1998.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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"An eclectic but consistently stimulating collection of essays. . . . Students of statistics will find fresh ideas (and a few potential research topics). Those interested in data analysis will find provocative articles. All will find a remarkably diverse and readable book in which the wisdom/theorem ratio is unusually high."

Product details

• Authors: David R. Brillinger, David R. Fernholz Brillinger
• Assisted by: David Brillinger (Editor), David R. Brillinger (Editor), Brillinger David R. (Editor), Luisa Fernholz (Editor), Luisa T. Fernholz (Editor), Fernholz Luisa T. (Editor), Stephan Morgenthaler (Editor), Morgenthaler Stephan (Editor)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2014
• EAN: 9780691601595
• ISBN: 978-0-691-60159-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; Princeton Legacy Library
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics; MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, Probability & statistics, Probability and statistics