Breakthroughs in statistics. Volume I: Foundations and basic theory (Q1189440)

[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] This is the first volume of a two-volumed scientific papers collection concerning statistics, which have been of great influence on the development of statistics. The selection of the papers considers the period 1890-1979 and contains original articles by: \textit{G. M. Cox} (1957), \textit{R. A. Fisher} (1922), \textit{H. Hotelling} (1931), \textit{J. Neyman} and \textit{E. S. Pearson} (1933), \textit{M. S. Bartlett} (1937), \textit{B. de Finetti} (1937), \textit{H. Cramér} (1942), \textit{B. V. Gnedenko} (1943), \textit{C. R. Rao} (1945), \textit{A. Wald} (1945), \textit{W. Hoeffding} (1948), \textit{A. Wald} (1949), \textit{I. J. Good} (1952), \textit{H. E. Robbins} (1955), \textit{J. C. Kiefer} (1959), \textit{W. James} and \textit{C. M. Stein} (1961), \textit{A. Birnbaum} (1962), \textit{W. Edwards}, \textit{H. Lindman} and \textit{L.J. Savage} (1963), \textit{D. A. S. Fraser} (1966), and \textit{H. Akaike} (1973). Each item is prefaced by a prominent statistician.