Statistics has developed as a field through seminal ideas and fascinating controversies. This book concerns a wide-ranging set of 13 important statistical topics, grouped into three general areas: Philosophical Approaches to Statistical Inference; Important Statistical Methodology for Applications; and Topics on Statistical Design, focusing on the role of randomization. The key papers on each topic is discussed with commentaries to help explain them. The goal is to expand the readers- knowledge of the statistics literature and encourage a historical perspective.
Features:
- Discusses a number of important ideas in the history of statistics, including the likelihood principle, Bayes vs frequentist approaches to inference, alternative approaches to least squares regression, shrinkage estimation, hypothesis testing, multiple comparisons, and more
- Provides a deeper understanding and appreciation of the history of statistics
- Discusses disagreements i
