A Celebration of Statistics

1. Front Matter

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2. Prediction and Entropy

   • Hirotugu Akaike

   Pages 1-24

3. Statistical Developments in World War II: An International Perspective

   • Stephen E. Fienberg

   Pages 25-30

4. Statistics in the United Kingdom, 1939–45

   • G. A. Barnard, R. L. Plackett

   Pages 31-55

5. The Fascination of Sand

   • Ole E. Barndorff-Nielsen, Preben Blæsild, Jens Ledet Jensen, Michael Sørensen

   Pages 57-87

6. International Trends in Official Statistics

   • Petter Jakob Bjerve

   Pages 89-108

7. Cohort Analysis in Epidemiology

   • N. E. Breslow

   Pages 109-143

8. Psychiatric Statistics

   • Morris H. DeGroot, Juan E. Mezzich

   Pages 145-165

9. Mathematical Models for Infectious Disease Statistics

   • K. Dietz, D. Schenzle

   Pages 167-204

10. Evolutionary Origins of Statisticians and Statistics

    • J. Durbin

    Pages 205-231

11. Statistical Computing: What’s Past is Prologue

    • William F. Eddy, James E. Gentle

    Pages 233-249

12. Conditional Econometric Modeling: An Application to New House Prices in the United Kingdom

    • Neil R. Ericsson, D. F. Hendry

    Pages 251-285

13. Large-Scale Social Experimentation in the United States

    • Stephen E. Fienberg, Burton Singer, Judith M. Tanur

    Pages 287-326

14. The Development of Sample Surveys of Finite Populations

    • Morris H. Hansen, Tore Dalenius, Benjamin J. Tepping

    Pages 327-354

15. On Some New Probabilistic Developments of Significance to Statistics: Martingales, Long Range Dependence, Fractals, and Random Fields

    • C. C. Heyde

    Pages 355-368

16. Concepts of Robustness

    • Christopher Field

    Pages 369-375

17. Robust Estimators of Location and Their Second-Order Asymptotic Relations

    • Jana Jurečková

    Pages 377-392

18. Mathematical Statistics in the Humanities, and Some Related Problems in Astronomy

    • David G. Kendall

    Pages 393-408

19. Reflections on the World Fertility Survey

    • Miloš Macura, John Cleland

    Pages 409-436

20. Economic and Social Statistics for Comparative Assessments

    • E. Malinvaud

    Pages 437-463

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.

• Mathematica
• Statistik
• estimator
• mathematical statistics
• modeling
• statistical computing
• statistics

• Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England

  Anthony C. Atkinson

• Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

  Stephen E. Fienberg

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