The book presents a retrospective of Frederick Mosteller's distinguished career as a statistician and educator, enriched by numerous photographs and insightful commentaries from colleagues and former students. These contributions provide varied perspectives on his influence and legacy, showcasing his impact on the field over more than sixty years.
Remarkable selection of puzzlers, graded in difficulty, that illustrate both elementary and advanced aspects of probability. Selected for originality, general interest, or because they demonstrate valuable techniques, the problems are ideal as a supplement to courses in probability or statistics, or as stimulating recreation for the mathematically minded. Detailed solutions. Illustrated.
This book explains important ideas behind medical uses of statistics without burdening the reader with the technical details of mathematical manipulations. It is based on conversations with John Bailar and Frederick Mosteller of the Department of Biostatistics of the Harvard School of Public Health.
Normal and non-normal data; Applications of the binomial and multinomial distributions; Ranking methods for two independent samples; Normal approximation for the mann-whitney test; Wicoxon's signed rank test; Rank correlation; Rare events: the poisson distribution; The exact chi-square distribution; Applying chi-square to counted data: basic ideas; Order statistics: distributions of probabilities, confidence limits, tolerance limits; Order statistics: point estimation; Designing your own statistical test or measure; Discrete distribution of a random variable