Counting for Something: Statistical Principles and Personalities

Authors: Peters, William S.



Table of contents (22 chapters)

Statistics—The Word

Distributions

Special Averages

Making Comparisons

Probability

Craps and Binomial

Horsekicks, Deadly Quarrels, and Flying Bombs

Normal Distribution

Political Arithmetic

Regression and Correlation

Karl Pearson

Pearson to Gosset to Fisher

More Regression

R. A. Fisher

Sampling: Polls and Surveys

Quality Control

Principal Components and Factor Analysis

Jerzy Neyman

The Bayesian Bandwagon

Observational Studies and Program Evaluation

Nonparametrics and Robust Methods

Statistics—A Summing Up