2/ Fun fact: Ronald Fisher who could never bear criticism quit the Cambridge Philosophical Society altogether when Bartlett published a paper in the Proceedings correcting some of Fisherâs ANCOVA errors.
HappyđSamuel S. Wilks b #OTD 1906 (d 7 Mar 1964) ASA Fellow 1940, ASA President 1950. Professor of mathematical statistics at Princeton he made major contributions to multivariate analysis (think Wilks's λ distribution), confidence interval estimation and quality control. 1/2
Two đof celebrated statisticians #OTD: John Tukey and David Duncan 1/3đ§”
2/ With Walter Shewhart he edited the Wiley âSeries in Statisticsâ - by 1964 it had become THE premier academic collection of modern statistical theory. Fisher (of course) found fault with his now-classic 1962 book âMathematical Statisticsâ because it was in paperback rather than hardcover
Happyđ to Peter Armitage CBE b #OTD 1924 (d 14 Feb 2024) One of the few winners of all 3 Guy Medals & elected president of 3 statistical societies, he revolutionised the practice and profession of medical statistics, especially his work on statistical stopping rules for sequential medical trials
#OTD 1937 Jerzy Neyman introduces the confidence interval in a talk given at the Royal Statistical Society. Listeners are not enthusiastic: in the vote of thanks, AJ Bowley wonders aloud if confidence intervals are just a âconfidence trickâ, doubts their validity & if they were any possible use.
#OTD 1910 Maurice S Bartlett b (d 8 Jan 2002). ASA Fellow 1951; Guy Silver & Gold Medals; RSS President 1966. Known for Bartlettâs test for homogeneity of variances, he worked on stochastic processes, time series, & multivariate analyses & introduced Monte Carlo methods to ecology & epidemiology 1/
2/ John Tukey (1915-26 Jul 2000) ASA Fellow 1949. A pioneer in computational statistics, interactive computer graphics (which he considered central to exploratory data analysis), & time series (fast Fourier transform, spectrum analysis), he even coined the acronym for ANOVA
3/ David B Duncan (1916-12 Jun 2006) ASA Fellow 1962. Best known for the Duncan Multiple Range test (1955; cited almost 40K times), & k-ratio t-test (1992), the first Bayesian multiple comparison procedure & an early advocate of Kalman filters for dynamic estimation in time series problems
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