The Importance of Practice in the Development of Statistics

DOI10.2307/1268410MaRDI QIDQ3676954zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. E. P. Box

Publication date 1984

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/1268410

zbMATH Keywords

correlationexperimental designrandomizationcontingency tablesdata analysisleast squaresanalysis of variancequality controlnonparametric teststheorysequential testsfractional replicationbioassaytransformation theorystudentizationsampling inspectioncumulative sum chartspracticeratio estimatorsARIMA time seriesBayes- frequentist controversylimits for a ratiovariance component analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX) Applications of statistics (62P99) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of statistics (62-03) Survival analysis and censored data (62N99)

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