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

analysis of varianceARIMA time seriesBayes- frequentist controversybioassaycontingency tablescorrelationcumulative sum chartsdata analysisexperimental designfractional replicationleast squareslimits for a rationonparametric testspracticequality controlrandomizationratio estimatorssampling inspectionsequential testsstudentizationtheorytransformation theoryvariance component analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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